There's a Chinese government atrocity -- a massacre of tens of thousands -- that has long been hushed up. But the victims weren't Uyghurs; they were native Taiwanese-- mostly the educated elite--massacred by US ally Chiang's Kuomintang in 1947.
Lin's family's story was not unique. As many as 28,000 Taiwanese civilians were believed to be killed after an attempted uprising in 1947, a systematic massacre significant not only for its scale but also for the silence that enshrouded the subject for decades afterward. Because of a 38-year period of martial law that followed the killings, it was verboten to even mention such deaths publicly. To this day, it remains a painful and controversial subject among Taiwan's older generation.
Washington Post
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When I was in the US military, I learned about this in Taiwan from a Chinese immigrant from the mainland who spoke English. I visited some Taiwanese places in the mountains with him as guide. This is not generally known. The native Taiwanese were treated like the Native Americans during the frontier days.
Asian supremacist beliefs are well documented... with mass graves.
I strongly recommend Tuchman's Stilwell and the American Experience in China. It really shows off what a bastard and incompetent Chiang Kai-shek was, along with the US role in China. Many of the Chinese experts were, of course, fired or excluded during the McCarthyist phase, but it could all have been different if they had had types like Stilwell to advise, methinks. Stilwell (who died in 1946) comes off as a remarkable fellow.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/07/archives/stilwell-and-the-american-experience-in-china-191145-by-barbara.html
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