How did South Korea stop the expansion of communism but South Vietnam and China Republic (Taiwan) couldn ?
Wow – you have asked this question six times already! Have you still not gotten a satisfactory answer? For starters, the Republic of China failed to stop Communism in China because the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD or KMT) was not a popular government, and was led by a dictator (Chiang Kai-shek), whose government was corrupt, and whose inability to share power meant a 22-year long civil war which they lost in spite of the millions of dollars of U.S. aid. The Chinese people chose the Communists instead of the Nationalists. Once the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan – there was no way they could stop Communism alone. The story of the Republic of Vietnam has some similarities to that of China. The so-called “Republic of Vietnam” was really one man – Ngo Dinh Diem – a dictator assuming total power over the southern region of the artifically-divided nation of Vietnam. Like Chiang Kai- Shek and the Nationalists in China, Diem was not a popular leader (a catholic in a nation of Buddhists) and
