> Taiwan didn’t start as a US backed dictatorship. Sure because they weren't US backed but they still were a dictatorship... Truman publicly signaled the US h

> Taiwan didn’t start as a US backed dictatorship. Sure because they weren't US backed but they still were a dictatorship... Truman publicly signaled the US had no intention of defending Taiwan or SK, but public sentiment changed in the US after Kim il-sung invaded. > One can easily say that China traded Taiwan (which it surely would have been able to take back without USA backing) for North Korea (which probably would have been folded into the ROK without Chinese intervention). Korea was also the Japanese invasion point into China in WW2, which made it sensitive for the US to mobilize in.