re: 7.2 magnitude quake rocks Taiwan, tsunami warnings issued

The nationalist government was composed of warlords who were famously inept and corrupt. They made the communists look good in comparison. Joseph Stilwell, the American commander of the China-Burma-India theatre hated Chang Kai Shek. TBF the Taiwanese government has improved dramatically in the ensuing decades. But they didn't put up much of a fight against Mao's army in 1948.