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Republic of China (Taiwan)
Motto: N/A
Demonym: Taiwanese or Chinese
Government: Unitary Semi-Presidential Republic
Capital: Taipei
Official Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka.
Population (2055): 40.4m Est.
Population (2077): 12.4m Est.
Average Pop. Growth: 17.2%
Ethnic Breakdown: 97% Han, 3% Other (2055)
Armed Forces (2055): 400,019
Armed Forces (At its Peak 2076): 1.2m Est.
Men of Military Age (2055): 2.9m
Branches: Republic of China Army, Republic of China Navy, Republic of China Air Force, Republic of China Military Police
Economic System: Free Market Mixed Economy
HDI: 0.90
Gini (2054): 36.1
GDP (PPP): 27.2 Trillion
GDP (Nominal): 29.2 Trillion
Per Capita: 54,009 USD
Unemployment: 5.1%
Annual GDP Growth: 10.2%
Colonies: N/A
Taiwanese War Losses
2055-2077
Military Casualties
(Year – KIA – WIA – MIA – Years Worst Single Loss Event – Years Military Strength)
2055 – 292,097 – 100,000 Est. – 40,000 Est. – Battle of Taiwan (292,097) – 400,019
NO FURTHER DATA AVAILABLE
Civilian Casualties
(Year – KIA – WIA – MIA – Major Cause of Civilian Death)
2055 – 675,891 – 5,000,000 Est. – Unknown – Battle of Taiwan
NO FURTHER DATA AVAILABLE
Total Military KIA: Unknown
Total Civilian KIA: Unknown
Total Economic Losses: Unknown
Total HDI Loss: Unknown
Total NAT Loss: Unknown
Republic of China Leadership (2055-2077)
2054-2055: President Yi (DPP) – President Yi after completing his compulsory military service in the Republic of China Army went into politics under the Democratic Progressive Party and was elected into the Legislative Yuan. In the Legislative Yuan Yi made a name for himself by taking a hard stand against the People's Republic of China and declaring that Taiwan would not be intimidated by the PRC's aggressive expansion across Asia. In 2076 Yi ran for President for the DPP as a Taiwan sovereignty hardliner and won with 75% of the vote. President Yi immediately went to work by visiting the United States of America and setting up a military alliance that could counter the PRC. The alliance would ultimately fail in its purpose and Taiwan fell to the Hegemony. President Yi attempted to escape Taiwan, but was caught by the People's Liberation Army. Records discovered after the war show Yi was tortured for eight days until he died and his body displayed hanging from the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, Taiwan.
2055-2076: NO LEADERSHIP
2076-2078: General Jin-pyng (ROC Army) – The Allied armada liberated Taiwan in late 2076 and assembled a new Republic of China Army from the surviving population and assigned the Taiwan- born American Thomas Jin-pyng as the commander of the new ROC Army. He led the ROC army in Operation Scorch Garden and eventually turned over control of the ROC army into the new USEA world government in 2078.
2075-2079: President Masada (REP) - 2078, The war ends in 2077 and the USA ceases to exist. The surviving nations (including the Republic of China) form the USEA. Masada is assassinated by forces loyal to General De-Tierra who then seizes power.
2079-2117: General De-Tierra (FED) - Long dictatorship until ousted by Republican rebels and the Colonial Alliance.
HISTORY 2055-2077
The Republic of China (also known as Taiwan) was a nation born from civil war during the Second Human Civil War era and where the Third Human Civil War would begin on August.08, 2055. The Republic of China was formed in what is now mainland China after the toppling of the Qing Dynasty by a military coup led by the Nationalist Kuomintang in 1912. The new Chinese Kuomintang Nationalist government went on a period of almost twenty years unifying China from warlords and lawless areas that plagued much of China then. The Kuomintang were assisted in their task by the Chinese Communists and the Soviet Union, until 1926 when the Kuomintang turned (Note: Historians point out that the Communists were planning an attack on the Nationalists so the KMT went with a preemptive strike based on their intelligence) on the Chinese communists and purged thousands of them. This action plunged China into a civil war, but pushed the Communist Chinese into the interior of the country. The Chinese civil war would rage unchecked until the Second Sino-Japanese War (Note: This war marks the official start of the Second Human Civil War) erupted in 1936 when the Japanese crossed into China from their puppet state of Manchuria and seized large swaths of China. The rapid pace of the Japanese military advance and their unprecedented brutality forced the Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists to put aside their differences and fight against the Japanese together what was then known as the Second Kuomintang-CPP United Front.
This united front held until the end of the Second Human Civil War in 1945 and the withdrawal of all Japanese forces from China. In 1946 hostilities between the Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists resumed and the Kuomintang's strongest allies, the United States, withdrew its military forces from China since it calculated intervention as being too costly. By 1949, a series of Chinese Communist offensives under the leadership of Mao Zedong led to the defeat of the Nationalist army, and the Communists founded the People's Republic of China on 1 October as the Nationalist Kuomintang's fled to the island of Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek the leader of the Nationalist Chinese declared Taipei the “wartime capital” of the ROC and two million other Nationalists (mainly Kuomintang soldiers and their families) fled to the island of six million people. The ROC was reduced to controlling only the island of Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu Islands, and the two major island territories of the Dongsha Islands and the Nansha Islands. Although the Kuomintang continued to proclaim that they were the legitimate government of all of “China.” (Note: Mainland China, Taiwan, Mongolia, and other areas. See Map.) The newly formed PRC countered by saying that they were the sole authority of China and that the Republic of China had ceased to exist. Both nations continued to fight each other in numerous night raids and military clashes well into the 1950's that didn't end until the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty which solidified the United States and Taiwan as Allies. The treaty ensured the sovereignty of Taiwan which was a high priority for the U.S. in light of the Cold War and its policy of containment of both communist China and the Soviet Union.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the ROC maintained an authoritarian, single-party government while its economy became industrialized and technology oriented. This rapid economical growth, known as the Taiwan Miracle, was the result of a fiscal regime independent from mainland China and backed up, among others, by the support of US funds and demand for Taiwanese products. In the 1970s, Taiwan was economically the second fastest growing state in Asia after Japan. Taiwan, along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, became known as one of the Four Asian Tigers. Because of the Cold War, most Western nations and the United Nations regarded the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China until the 1970s. Later, especially after the termination of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, most nations switched diplomatic recognition to the PRC. (Author Note: direct quote from wikipedia) The 1980's and 1990's saw the democratization of Taiwan and the end of one-party rule along with martial law with the death of Chiang Kai-shek and later his son. The 2000's and 2010's saw the return of PRC's pressure to absorb Taiwan into its orbit, but the suddenly mass unrest within the PRC itself stalled the PRC's ambitions. The late 2020's, 2030's, and 2040's saw a lessening of tensions between the two China's as the world plunged into a cycle of deep economic morass and eventually into the Second Great Depression and the ROC benefited greatly from its proximity to the PRC and India. This attitude of friendship soon changed as the 2050's approached...
The decade before the Third Human Civil War the People's Republic of China aggressively expanded its territory and influence in Asia by any means necessary short of open warfare. As one Asian nation after the other (Laos, Thailand, Mongolia, Myanmar, etc.) fell into the PRC's dominion and control the people of the Republic of China grew concerned. A debate raged within the ROC into which course of action to take: accept PRC control and lose its sovereignty or align itself more with the American-Indian-Australian block of nations actively trying to control the rise of an aggressive PRC. The debate soon became a referendum in the 2054 Presidential elections between DPP candidate Yi who advocated sovereignty and KMT candidate Duo who advocated “strategic unification” with mainland China who he argued was to be the future world hyperpower. The people of the ROC were evenly divided on the debate until Indian hackers hacked into the PRC's military database and revealed horrific atrocities that was being committed within Thailand and Nepal by the People's Liberation Army. The news spread like wildfire within the ROC and candidate Yi easily won the election. Within twenty-four hours the PRC demanded that Yi resign and he refused. The PRC took the international embarrassment and did nothing as Yi became a hero for standing up to the PRC and making the most powerful nation on Earth blink. Yi representing the ROC visited the Washington D.C. (the U.S. capital at the time) in early 2055 along with the leaders of the Republic of India, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the State of Japan, and eight other Pacific nations and formed the Allied Nations Security Pact. The Allied Nations set out a cohesive plan to further encircle and contain the PRC and Yi pushed and secured the reinstatement of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Pact. The pact ensured that the United States would come to the defense of Taiwan should it be attacked and ipso facto would also bring the rest of the Allied Nations into that war should it ever happen. On July.01, 2055 the PRC announced an ultimatum to the government of the Republic of China, peacefully merge with mainland China or be destroyed. The PRC gave the ROC until the first of August to comply and in response the Allied Nations sent a multinational task force to the Strait of Taiwan.
The Multinational Task Force (MTF) consisted of nearly one hundred ships from nine nations (included nearly all of the United States Pacific Fleet) and arrived in the Strait of Taiwan on July .29, 2055. The Allied fleet was sent as a show of force against the PRC and to further support the ROC against the PRC. The first of August came and went and the PRC did nothing. Unfortunately for the Allies the PRC had planned for this battle for nearly a decade and launched Operation Vermillion on August.08, 2055. Within the first thirty minutes fifty Allied ships were sunk in a coordinated missile barrage and air attacks launched from mainland China. The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) moved in and engaged the remaining Allied fleet, although the MTF was outnumbered 3-1 they held their own due to superior technology. On the third hour of the battle the Communist Federated Republics Navy suddenly appeared (Note: The CFR mainly deployed submarines to the battle but had eleven stealth cruisers stealthed in the northern pass of the Taiwan Strait) and completely ravaged the Allied fleet. With no way to escape, the surviving Allied ships beached themselves on Taiwan and braced for the PLA invasion. On the eighth hour the first wave of 400,000 PLA soldiers landed north of Chang-hua and south of Hsin-chu (Note: Nearly one million PLA soldiers would land on Taiwan as part of Operation Vermillion). The PLA encountered fierce ROC Army resistance, but the highly trained and well-equipped PLA along with air superiority allowed the PLA to secure a beachhead. With PLA soldiers on Taiwan itself, the battle for the island was already lost for the Allies (Note: Most historians agree that the only way for the Allies to have won this battle was to somehow have kept the PLA from landing). The ROC army and the stranded Allied sailors and marines fought valiantly, but within three weeks the island was captured by the Hegemony. A million Taiwanese were killed along with 89,000 Allied sailors and marines and President Yi was captured attempting to flee Taipei as it fell to the Hegemony on a fishing boat. Reports after the war reveal that the PLA made him a high value target and sent its special forces to find him and capture him alive. He was brought back to Taipei by the PLA where he paid for his “crimes against the Chinese people,” and was tortured for eight days until his death. His horribly mangled and defaced body was hung from the entrance of the ROC Presidential Office Building and the thus began what the people of Taiwan would call “the Long Occupation.”
From 2055 to 2076 Taiwan was annexed by the PRC and came under its occupation. The first years of occupation were the most brutal for the citizens of Taiwan and it saw the elimination of hundreds of thousands suspected of being supporters of an independent Taiwan. The PLA targeted members of the Green Coalition parties(Pro-Independence), intellectuals and the once wealthy of Taiwan. After the great purge of 2055 the PLA heavily recruited from the surviving population of Taiwan for its military. Since the Taiwanese were Han Chinese the PLA allowed those that proved their loyalty to advance in the PRC and even to become officers within the PLA. Many Taiwanese faithfully took to the Chinese Hegemony cause, but some continued to resist and provided the Allies with intelligence within the PLA and PRC. These Taiwanese spies provided the Allies with more then half of their reliable intelligence during the war.
In late 2076 the Allies returned to Taiwan after a long and bloody island campaign across the Pacific known to history as Operation Waltzing Matilda. The Allied armada consisted of thousands of warships and tens of millions of men landed all along the western coast of Taiwan. The Allied invasion force landed at three points on Taiwan; T'ai-tung, Su-ao, and Hua-lien. The Allies failed to secure a beachhead on Su-ao and Hua-lien due to the fanatical and heavily fortified PLA resistance on the island. The PRC knew that the island could become a launch point from which the Allies could assault mainland China, so the Hegemony defenders there fought harder and to the last man. Even with air superiority and help from Taiwanese rebels on the ground the fight for Taiwan was short, but extremely bloody and a prelude to the bloodbath that the invasion of mainland China itself would be for the Allies. By May 2077 Taipei fell to the Allies and Taiwan was liberated. Even before the last PLA soldiers were killed on the island, millions of Allied troops, hundreds of thousands of vehicles, aircraft's, equipment, and supplies was pouring into the island nation for Operation Scorch Garden. The Allied leadership assigned General Jin-pyng (an American of Taiwanese descent) to lead the new Republic of Free China Army (ROFC Army) formed from the surviving male population of Taiwan. Operation Scorch Garden was launched and the ROFC Army landed on LZ Tiger with soldiers from the Republic of India, Free Japan, and numerous other Allied Nations. The ROFC Army sustained heavy casualties in the invasion since they fought with “fanatical vigor and courage bordering on suicidal” (ROI General Lakshmikantha). The ROFC Army wanted to prove their loyalty to the Allies and exact vengeance to their supposed “Han brothers” who caused them so much misery. When the war ended the ROFC Army was disbanded and integrated into the new USEA army. In 2078 the Republic of Free China ceased to exist after just a year of existence and it joined into the new world government.
Motto: N/A
Demonym: Taiwanese or Chinese
Government: Unitary Semi-Presidential Republic
Capital: Taipei
Official Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka.
Population (2055): 40.4m Est.
Population (2077): 12.4m Est.
Average Pop. Growth: 17.2%
Ethnic Breakdown: 97% Han, 3% Other (2055)
Armed Forces (2055): 400,019
Armed Forces (At its Peak 2076): 1.2m Est.
Men of Military Age (2055): 2.9m
Branches: Republic of China Army, Republic of China Navy, Republic of China Air Force, Republic of China Military Police
Economic System: Free Market Mixed Economy
HDI: 0.90
Gini (2054): 36.1
GDP (PPP): 27.2 Trillion
GDP (Nominal): 29.2 Trillion
Per Capita: 54,009 USD
Unemployment: 5.1%
Annual GDP Growth: 10.2%
Colonies: N/A
Taiwanese War Losses
2055-2077
Military Casualties
(Year – KIA – WIA – MIA – Years Worst Single Loss Event – Years Military Strength)
2055 – 292,097 – 100,000 Est. – 40,000 Est. – Battle of Taiwan (292,097) – 400,019
NO FURTHER DATA AVAILABLE
Civilian Casualties
(Year – KIA – WIA – MIA – Major Cause of Civilian Death)
2055 – 675,891 – 5,000,000 Est. – Unknown – Battle of Taiwan
NO FURTHER DATA AVAILABLE
Total Military KIA: Unknown
Total Civilian KIA: Unknown
Total Economic Losses: Unknown
Total HDI Loss: Unknown
Total NAT Loss: Unknown
Republic of China Leadership (2055-2077)
2054-2055: President Yi (DPP) – President Yi after completing his compulsory military service in the Republic of China Army went into politics under the Democratic Progressive Party and was elected into the Legislative Yuan. In the Legislative Yuan Yi made a name for himself by taking a hard stand against the People's Republic of China and declaring that Taiwan would not be intimidated by the PRC's aggressive expansion across Asia. In 2076 Yi ran for President for the DPP as a Taiwan sovereignty hardliner and won with 75% of the vote. President Yi immediately went to work by visiting the United States of America and setting up a military alliance that could counter the PRC. The alliance would ultimately fail in its purpose and Taiwan fell to the Hegemony. President Yi attempted to escape Taiwan, but was caught by the People's Liberation Army. Records discovered after the war show Yi was tortured for eight days until he died and his body displayed hanging from the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, Taiwan.
2055-2076: NO LEADERSHIP
2076-2078: General Jin-pyng (ROC Army) – The Allied armada liberated Taiwan in late 2076 and assembled a new Republic of China Army from the surviving population and assigned the Taiwan- born American Thomas Jin-pyng as the commander of the new ROC Army. He led the ROC army in Operation Scorch Garden and eventually turned over control of the ROC army into the new USEA world government in 2078.
2075-2079: President Masada (REP) - 2078, The war ends in 2077 and the USA ceases to exist. The surviving nations (including the Republic of China) form the USEA. Masada is assassinated by forces loyal to General De-Tierra who then seizes power.
2079-2117: General De-Tierra (FED) - Long dictatorship until ousted by Republican rebels and the Colonial Alliance.
HISTORY 2055-2077
The Republic of China (also known as Taiwan) was a nation born from civil war during the Second Human Civil War era and where the Third Human Civil War would begin on August.08, 2055. The Republic of China was formed in what is now mainland China after the toppling of the Qing Dynasty by a military coup led by the Nationalist Kuomintang in 1912. The new Chinese Kuomintang Nationalist government went on a period of almost twenty years unifying China from warlords and lawless areas that plagued much of China then. The Kuomintang were assisted in their task by the Chinese Communists and the Soviet Union, until 1926 when the Kuomintang turned (Note: Historians point out that the Communists were planning an attack on the Nationalists so the KMT went with a preemptive strike based on their intelligence) on the Chinese communists and purged thousands of them. This action plunged China into a civil war, but pushed the Communist Chinese into the interior of the country. The Chinese civil war would rage unchecked until the Second Sino-Japanese War (Note: This war marks the official start of the Second Human Civil War) erupted in 1936 when the Japanese crossed into China from their puppet state of Manchuria and seized large swaths of China. The rapid pace of the Japanese military advance and their unprecedented brutality forced the Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists to put aside their differences and fight against the Japanese together what was then known as the Second Kuomintang-CPP United Front.
This united front held until the end of the Second Human Civil War in 1945 and the withdrawal of all Japanese forces from China. In 1946 hostilities between the Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists resumed and the Kuomintang's strongest allies, the United States, withdrew its military forces from China since it calculated intervention as being too costly. By 1949, a series of Chinese Communist offensives under the leadership of Mao Zedong led to the defeat of the Nationalist army, and the Communists founded the People's Republic of China on 1 October as the Nationalist Kuomintang's fled to the island of Taiwan. Chiang Kai-shek the leader of the Nationalist Chinese declared Taipei the “wartime capital” of the ROC and two million other Nationalists (mainly Kuomintang soldiers and their families) fled to the island of six million people. The ROC was reduced to controlling only the island of Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu Islands, and the two major island territories of the Dongsha Islands and the Nansha Islands. Although the Kuomintang continued to proclaim that they were the legitimate government of all of “China.” (Note: Mainland China, Taiwan, Mongolia, and other areas. See Map.) The newly formed PRC countered by saying that they were the sole authority of China and that the Republic of China had ceased to exist. Both nations continued to fight each other in numerous night raids and military clashes well into the 1950's that didn't end until the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty which solidified the United States and Taiwan as Allies. The treaty ensured the sovereignty of Taiwan which was a high priority for the U.S. in light of the Cold War and its policy of containment of both communist China and the Soviet Union.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the ROC maintained an authoritarian, single-party government while its economy became industrialized and technology oriented. This rapid economical growth, known as the Taiwan Miracle, was the result of a fiscal regime independent from mainland China and backed up, among others, by the support of US funds and demand for Taiwanese products. In the 1970s, Taiwan was economically the second fastest growing state in Asia after Japan. Taiwan, along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, became known as one of the Four Asian Tigers. Because of the Cold War, most Western nations and the United Nations regarded the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China until the 1970s. Later, especially after the termination of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, most nations switched diplomatic recognition to the PRC. (Author Note: direct quote from wikipedia) The 1980's and 1990's saw the democratization of Taiwan and the end of one-party rule along with martial law with the death of Chiang Kai-shek and later his son. The 2000's and 2010's saw the return of PRC's pressure to absorb Taiwan into its orbit, but the suddenly mass unrest within the PRC itself stalled the PRC's ambitions. The late 2020's, 2030's, and 2040's saw a lessening of tensions between the two China's as the world plunged into a cycle of deep economic morass and eventually into the Second Great Depression and the ROC benefited greatly from its proximity to the PRC and India. This attitude of friendship soon changed as the 2050's approached...
The decade before the Third Human Civil War the People's Republic of China aggressively expanded its territory and influence in Asia by any means necessary short of open warfare. As one Asian nation after the other (Laos, Thailand, Mongolia, Myanmar, etc.) fell into the PRC's dominion and control the people of the Republic of China grew concerned. A debate raged within the ROC into which course of action to take: accept PRC control and lose its sovereignty or align itself more with the American-Indian-Australian block of nations actively trying to control the rise of an aggressive PRC. The debate soon became a referendum in the 2054 Presidential elections between DPP candidate Yi who advocated sovereignty and KMT candidate Duo who advocated “strategic unification” with mainland China who he argued was to be the future world hyperpower. The people of the ROC were evenly divided on the debate until Indian hackers hacked into the PRC's military database and revealed horrific atrocities that was being committed within Thailand and Nepal by the People's Liberation Army. The news spread like wildfire within the ROC and candidate Yi easily won the election. Within twenty-four hours the PRC demanded that Yi resign and he refused. The PRC took the international embarrassment and did nothing as Yi became a hero for standing up to the PRC and making the most powerful nation on Earth blink. Yi representing the ROC visited the Washington D.C. (the U.S. capital at the time) in early 2055 along with the leaders of the Republic of India, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the State of Japan, and eight other Pacific nations and formed the Allied Nations Security Pact. The Allied Nations set out a cohesive plan to further encircle and contain the PRC and Yi pushed and secured the reinstatement of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Pact. The pact ensured that the United States would come to the defense of Taiwan should it be attacked and ipso facto would also bring the rest of the Allied Nations into that war should it ever happen. On July.01, 2055 the PRC announced an ultimatum to the government of the Republic of China, peacefully merge with mainland China or be destroyed. The PRC gave the ROC until the first of August to comply and in response the Allied Nations sent a multinational task force to the Strait of Taiwan.
The Multinational Task Force (MTF) consisted of nearly one hundred ships from nine nations (included nearly all of the United States Pacific Fleet) and arrived in the Strait of Taiwan on July .29, 2055. The Allied fleet was sent as a show of force against the PRC and to further support the ROC against the PRC. The first of August came and went and the PRC did nothing. Unfortunately for the Allies the PRC had planned for this battle for nearly a decade and launched Operation Vermillion on August.08, 2055. Within the first thirty minutes fifty Allied ships were sunk in a coordinated missile barrage and air attacks launched from mainland China. The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) moved in and engaged the remaining Allied fleet, although the MTF was outnumbered 3-1 they held their own due to superior technology. On the third hour of the battle the Communist Federated Republics Navy suddenly appeared (Note: The CFR mainly deployed submarines to the battle but had eleven stealth cruisers stealthed in the northern pass of the Taiwan Strait) and completely ravaged the Allied fleet. With no way to escape, the surviving Allied ships beached themselves on Taiwan and braced for the PLA invasion. On the eighth hour the first wave of 400,000 PLA soldiers landed north of Chang-hua and south of Hsin-chu (Note: Nearly one million PLA soldiers would land on Taiwan as part of Operation Vermillion). The PLA encountered fierce ROC Army resistance, but the highly trained and well-equipped PLA along with air superiority allowed the PLA to secure a beachhead. With PLA soldiers on Taiwan itself, the battle for the island was already lost for the Allies (Note: Most historians agree that the only way for the Allies to have won this battle was to somehow have kept the PLA from landing). The ROC army and the stranded Allied sailors and marines fought valiantly, but within three weeks the island was captured by the Hegemony. A million Taiwanese were killed along with 89,000 Allied sailors and marines and President Yi was captured attempting to flee Taipei as it fell to the Hegemony on a fishing boat. Reports after the war reveal that the PLA made him a high value target and sent its special forces to find him and capture him alive. He was brought back to Taipei by the PLA where he paid for his “crimes against the Chinese people,” and was tortured for eight days until his death. His horribly mangled and defaced body was hung from the entrance of the ROC Presidential Office Building and the thus began what the people of Taiwan would call “the Long Occupation.”
From 2055 to 2076 Taiwan was annexed by the PRC and came under its occupation. The first years of occupation were the most brutal for the citizens of Taiwan and it saw the elimination of hundreds of thousands suspected of being supporters of an independent Taiwan. The PLA targeted members of the Green Coalition parties(Pro-Independence), intellectuals and the once wealthy of Taiwan. After the great purge of 2055 the PLA heavily recruited from the surviving population of Taiwan for its military. Since the Taiwanese were Han Chinese the PLA allowed those that proved their loyalty to advance in the PRC and even to become officers within the PLA. Many Taiwanese faithfully took to the Chinese Hegemony cause, but some continued to resist and provided the Allies with intelligence within the PLA and PRC. These Taiwanese spies provided the Allies with more then half of their reliable intelligence during the war.
In late 2076 the Allies returned to Taiwan after a long and bloody island campaign across the Pacific known to history as Operation Waltzing Matilda. The Allied armada consisted of thousands of warships and tens of millions of men landed all along the western coast of Taiwan. The Allied invasion force landed at three points on Taiwan; T'ai-tung, Su-ao, and Hua-lien. The Allies failed to secure a beachhead on Su-ao and Hua-lien due to the fanatical and heavily fortified PLA resistance on the island. The PRC knew that the island could become a launch point from which the Allies could assault mainland China, so the Hegemony defenders there fought harder and to the last man. Even with air superiority and help from Taiwanese rebels on the ground the fight for Taiwan was short, but extremely bloody and a prelude to the bloodbath that the invasion of mainland China itself would be for the Allies. By May 2077 Taipei fell to the Allies and Taiwan was liberated. Even before the last PLA soldiers were killed on the island, millions of Allied troops, hundreds of thousands of vehicles, aircraft's, equipment, and supplies was pouring into the island nation for Operation Scorch Garden. The Allied leadership assigned General Jin-pyng (an American of Taiwanese descent) to lead the new Republic of Free China Army (ROFC Army) formed from the surviving male population of Taiwan. Operation Scorch Garden was launched and the ROFC Army landed on LZ Tiger with soldiers from the Republic of India, Free Japan, and numerous other Allied Nations. The ROFC Army sustained heavy casualties in the invasion since they fought with “fanatical vigor and courage bordering on suicidal” (ROI General Lakshmikantha). The ROFC Army wanted to prove their loyalty to the Allies and exact vengeance to their supposed “Han brothers” who caused them so much misery. When the war ended the ROFC Army was disbanded and integrated into the new USEA army. In 2078 the Republic of Free China ceased to exist after just a year of existence and it joined into the new world government.
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