
Will America Defend Taiwan? Here's What History Says ...
· In December 1949, Chiang Kaishek moved the capitol of the Republic of China (ROC) to Taipei. He intended the reloion to be temporary. He had already moved his government multiple times: when the Empire of Japan invaded China, when World War II ended, and again when Mao Zedong's Communist insurgents took the upper hand in the Chinese Civil War.