[Encore] Mao's Taiwanese Spymaster
The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files
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The Chinese Communist Party's Plan to Take Taiwan
The deadline for invasion is pushed back from the winter of 49 to the summer of 1950. Ashenas troops are in disarray, collapsed over the last 18 months. They see it as a formality. But obviously, if you want to take Taiwan, you've got to take those little islands that we still hold. Jin Man, Madzu, those places. The important thing about Jim is where it is just 10 kilometers east from shaman. You could pretty much see the coast over there with a good pair of binoculars.
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