Pinchflat

Why Didn’t Taiwan Join the Korean War? #OOTD #shorts

Media Tasks
Actions

Raw Attributes

Source: Korean War
  • upload_date_index: 99
  • media_id: 2-AzU80BUts
  • short_form_content: true
  • source_id: 28
  • tasks:
  • playlist_index: 10
  • livestream: false
  • description: When the Korean War began in 1950, Chiang Kai-shek offered to send 33,000 Nationalist troops from Taiwan to fight alongside UN forces. That would have made Taiwan the third-largest contributor—after South Korea and the U.S. President Harry Truman initially considered it, but his advisers warned that it could provoke Communist China into a full-scale war. The Chinese Civil War had just ended, and tensions were already explosive. When Chinese troops crossed the Yalu River later that year, General Douglas MacArthur again pushed for Taiwanese reinforcements—but Truman refused. Sending them, he argued, might turn Korea into another Chinese Civil War and leave Taiwan undefended. In our linked Short, we explore another moment when the U.S. faced a delicate balance between allies and escalation: Why did Syngman Rhee try to sabotage peace talks in 1953? Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join the TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv/signup/ Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost World War Two: https://www.youtube.com/@WorldWarTwo Follow WW2 Day by Day on Instagram: @ww2_day_by_day Follow TimeGhost History on Instagram: @timeghosthistory Follow TimeGhost on Twitter: @TimeGhostTV Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson Creative Producer: Iryna Dulka Map animations by: Daniel Weiss Head of Cartography and 3D Map animations by: Andreas Olsson Map research by: Tom Aldis Georeferencing and GIS Development by: Pascal Bracamonte Editing by: Pawel Wiszomirski Source literature list: https://bit.ly/Korean_War_Sources Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound. Additional sound effects provided by Zapsplat.com A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.
  • id: 39997
  • media_downloaded_at:
  • uuid: 6ee86f1a-84d4-4afc-84a0-1d31eb44a9fa
  • nfo_filepath:
  • original_url: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2-AzU80BUts
  • subtitle_filepaths:
  • culled_at:
  • metadata_filepath:
  • updated_at: 2025-12-11T12:41:03Z
  • inserted_at: 2025-12-11T12:41:03Z
  • media_redownloaded_at:
  • predicted_media_filepath: /downloads/Korean War/Why Didn’t Taiwan Join the Korean War？ #OOTD #shorts.mp4
  • uploaded_at: 2025-10-12T18:25:29Z
  • media_filepath:
  • media_size_bytes:
  • duration_seconds: 55
  • matching_search_term:
  • thumbnail_filepath:
  • title: Why Didn’t Taiwan Join the Korean War? #OOTD #shorts
  • prevent_culling: false
  • last_error:
  • prevent_download: false

Nothing Here!