US secretary of state’s invocation of Cold War expression stirs unexpected debate in Taiwan
“We’re going to unleash Chiang on these people in the next few hours and days,” he said.
The expression dates back to the early Cold War. After the Korean war broke out on June 25, 1950, then US president Harry Truman ordered the Seventh Fleet to protect Taiwan and prevent an attack by Chinese Communist forces.
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