More examples of immediate post war Allied Powers’ position on Taiwan’s status and what should be done about Chiang’s mismanagement of the island, which I actually posted a long time back: Taiwanese's opinion of ROC/KMT prior to 228
Mar 21, 1946 Washington Daily News headline “Chinese Exploit Formosa Worse Than Japs Did” by William H. Newton
The article gave us the famous
Formosans greeted the few visiting Americans with: “You were kind to the Japanese, you dropped the atom on them. You dropped the Chinese on us!”
Sadly Willian Newton died in a plane crash in 1949.
Jun 10, 1946 Time article “Foreign News: This Is the Shame”
It starts with:
At last, eight months after V-J day, sugar-starved China was getting supplies from its new sugarbowl, Formosa. Ships were plying the 400 miles from Kiirun to Shanghai with the first of 150,000 tons of Japanese stores confiscated by the Chinese Army that took over the island, under U.S. tutelage, last fall.
It also recorded the dropping the Chinese on Taiwan is more cruel than dropping the atom on Japan line, and ends with
Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice—Japan.