Will America Defend Taiwan? Here’s What History Says | Hoover Institution

Will America Defend Taiwan? Here’s What History Says | Hoover Institution: In December 1949, Chiang Kai-shek moved the capitol of the Republic of China (ROC) to Taipei. He intended the relocation 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.