NAFO troons and /k/-feds will say
>west taiwan is a paper tiger
Even forgetting that taiwan is a placename and the nation calls itself
>the republic of china

Now look at that.
>devastating japanese invasion 1937 to 1945
>bloody civil war 1945 to 1949
>foreign war against america in kore in 1950
Meanwhile america was firmly established as a global superpower and won ww2 unscathed.
They had uncontested air superiority and were streets ahead in mil.tech.

And yet they got besten back all the way to the DMZ.
And china has only gotten stronger since then, not least because of
>JFK's treason to the RoC at the height of the cold war (one china policy)
>global outsourcing of manufacturing almost exclusively to china
>massive industrial and military espionage campaign, so far that even chinese citizens serve in US forces and have access to classified data (this happened a couple times)

>chinks
Muricans
>homing pigeons & runners
Radios
>shitty leftover bolt action rifles, light MGs
Semi-autos, grenade launchers modern MGs
>towed guns and a few old soviet tanks
Self propelled guns and modern tanks
>no airpower
Jets, carriers and radars
>new china founded a year ago after 4 years of civil war and before that devastating japanese invasion
Just won ww2 unscathed and firmly established as a superpower

Why couldnt america steamroll china?
How did the chinese manage to push them back all the way to the DMZ?

Was china a paper tiger even back then?