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I say this as someone who’s been watching this lately and am on day 45. This is a great way to digest the transcripts easily instead of flipping through pages and gives you a ton of insight on the offense and their witnesses. Very very good source that I think more fans should use to know the trial inside and out.

I found this excellent blog that goes into a deep dive of the Chandler allegations. In the previous recommendation I made on the deep dive of Gutierrez, there were letters between Paula and Rodney Allen exchanged while he was in prison.

Paula has an extensive blog here detailing the Chandler allegations and has also done her own article on Gutierrez, Dimond, and Allen and has went out of her way to FOIA and obtain documents that you can’t easily find online.

Not sure if this was posted before but I came across this excellent investigative piece on Victor Gutierrez and thought it would be a great resource to share here. It goes into detail about his collaboration with convicted pedophile Rodney Allen, Diane Dimond, and connections to the Chandlers.

This sounds like a strange question but I read a few sources that have said that prior to the civil war the CPC was for Taiwanese sovereignty as a state until CKS and the KMT retreated to Taiwan and claimed it as the ROC.

Given that CKS was also backed by the US and Taiwan is still backed up the US it makes sense why the PRC is so insistent on wanting to reunify because Taiwan has been weaponized as a source of containment of China.
That and the history of the civil war.

But if CKS and the KMT had been ousted and forced to surrender to the mainland and Taiwan never got so intertwined with American funding would we even have the cross strait relations issue that exists today?

Also kind of a leap but are there any “third positionists” who would hypothetically support the DPP if they weren’t controlled by the west and forced the ROC to return back to the mainland? Is it possible for it to ever happen where Taiwan is freed from all western imperialist interests, the KMT is ousted as a party, and thus there’s no need for the PRC to seek reunification?

Edit; the sources where I read Mao’s stance on Taiwan

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2757657

https://gaodawei.wordpress.com/2024/06/22/2022-did-mao-support-taiwan-independence-back-in-1947/