Your Government respect them not because they want you to think they are of your kind, It because they left a scar in your racial memories so deep that it can`t be forget ..
Some history will refresh some memories ..
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Battle of Guningtou or Battle of Kuningtou
October, 1949
The People’s Liberation Army secured control of mainland China by the end of 1949. Its Nationalist opponents in the Kuomintang, reeling from defeat after defeat, retreated to various islands on the coast, most notably Taiwan and Hainan.
At that time, the PLA disposed of only modest air and sea assets, but it was determined to seize the islands while the Nationalists were in retreat and disarray.
Following the establishment of the
People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the government of the
Republic of China under
Chiang Kai-shek began withdrawing its forces from
mainland China to Taiwan. However, ROC garrisons remained stationed on the islands of
Kinmen and
Matsu, located off the coast in
Fujian Province. Commanders of the PRC
People's Liberation Army (PLA) believed that Kinmen and Matsu had to be taken before a final assault on Taiwan. The PLA planned to attack Kinmen by launching a first attack with 9,000 troops to establish a beachhead, before landing a second force of roughly 10,000 on Greater Kinmen Island, expecting to take the entire island in three days from an ROC garrison not expected to be larger than two
divisions. The Communists had incorrectly estimated that there were only 12,000 Nationalist soldiers on the entire island–a calculation that would contribute to their calamitous defeat. Expecting that a PLA attack was imminent, ROC commanders ordered the immediate construction of fortifications. By October, ROC troops had laid 7,455
land mines, and constructed roughly 200 earthen
bunkers on the shores of Kinmen, as well as several anti-amphibious landing beach obstacles. The ROC garrison on Kinmen was also reinforced with more armor, troops and supplies. In the opening hours of October 25, the PLA's armada (consisting of hundreds of wooden fishing boats) set sail for Kinmen. They intended to land near the village of Longkou on the narrowest part of the island. But due to the crudeness of their craft, choppy waters and winds, many of them were scattered and carried past Longkou and northwestwards toward the shore of Guningtou instead.
Around October 25, The advancing PLA forces were met by the
ROC 18th Army and US-made
M5A1 tanks of ROC 1st Bn, 3rd Tank Regiment. PLA Regiment 244 held high ground at Shuangru Hill (雙乳山), but were beaten back by ROC armor by early morning. Then, the second lucky break for the Nationalists: at dusk the preceding day, the M5A1 Stuart tank #66 under command of Lt. Yang Chan bogged down on a sand dune on Longkou beach during a defensive exercise. The other two Stuarts in his platoon stayed behind in an attempt to tow out the immobilized vehicle. The tankers were still on the beach, enjoying a snack at 3:00 a.m., when the three thousand troops of the 244th PLA infantry regiment swarmed ashore from wooden boats around 4:00 a.m. The stunned tankers opened fire with their three thirty-seven-millimeter cannons and nine machine guns.
The fortuitous presence of Yang Chan’s tank platoon managed to contain the PLA landing at Longkou. While immobilized tank #66 stayed behind to cover its sector of the beach—only firing from the turret because the hull was facing the wrong way!—the other two tanks launched joined a counterattack on Guanyinting Hill.
Six more Stuart tanks soon swept down from the First Battalion, followed belatedly by infantry of the 118th Division. The counterattack overran the PLA invader—literally, as Stuart tanks exhausted their ammunition and resorted to charging forward into their massed opponents. Together, the Stuarts and infantry made their way to the beaches, blasting the stranded boats with tank guns, grenades and even infantry flamethrowers.
By the early morning of October 27, the surviving People's Liberation Army forces had exhausted their food and
ammunition. 1,300 PLA troops retreated to the beaches north of Guningtou. After a final ROC assault, the remaining PLA troops surrendered to ROC forces at 10:00 on that day. All of the PLA troops who had landed on Kinmen were lost.
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Race card is just a tool to keep your self esteem intact.
History speaks load and clear, Chinese communists respect only those only who bloodied their nose..
: 1280195, member: 21841"But bottom line is this (and it is very simple):
Taiwan is a powerful state populated by a formidable race. Nearly all of China's resources are arrayed against it and the other US backed East Asian powerhouses. China would do everything to avoid war with Taiwan.
I don't think Indians understand how China views its East Asian neighbors. We know they are powerful. We know this instinctively because we are of the same race. There is respect along with rivalry (East Asians visit each other in huge numbers.)