Name: 為什麼中國沒有徵服臺灣？ (Why Didn't China Conquer Taiwan?)
Uploaded: 2025-08-07T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 10 min 49 s

Ah, Taiwan, that small island off the coast of China that's been giving its communist neighbors a very big headache.

啊，臺灣，這個中國沿海的小島，一直讓它的共產主義鄰居們非常頭疼。

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You'd be forgiven for thinking that the Taiwan problem is relatively new, a leftover from the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War that followed.

如果你認為臺灣問題是相對較新的問題，是中國內戰和隨後的冷戰遺留下來的問題，那你就大錯特錯了。

But truth be told, China's troubles with Taiwan began much earlier, albeit in a surprisingly similar form.

但事實上，中國與臺灣的麻煩開始得更早，儘管形式驚人地相似。

To be clear, for most of its history, China didn't even want Taiwan.

說白了，在歷史上的大部分時間裡，中國根本不想要臺灣。

In the eyes of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties, Taiwan was a barbarian backwater inhabited by various Austronesian peoples and the occasional Chinese pirate or fisherman.

在唐、宋、元三代眼中，臺灣是一個蠻荒之地，居住著各種南島民族，偶爾也有中國海盜或漁民。

It is in this sorry state of affairs that the Portuguese first found Taiwan around the year 1542.

1542 年左右，葡萄牙人首次發現臺灣，就是在這種令人遺憾的情況下。

Unlike the Chinese, the Portuguese liked the island so much that they called it Formosa or Beautiful Island, though they weren't able to establish any settlements.

與中國人不同，葡萄牙人非常喜歡這個島嶼，是以將其稱為福爾摩沙或美麗島，儘管他們沒能在此建立任何定居點。

It was the Dutch who first laid claim to Taiwan by building an outpost on its southwestern edge, quickly followed by the Spanish who occupied a strip of coast up north.

荷蘭人首先在臺灣西南邊緣建立了一個前哨站，隨後西班牙人迅速佔領了北部的一片海岸。

This cozy arrangement didn't last very long.

這種溫馨的安排並沒有持續太久。

After all, sharing was never a European strong suit.

畢竟，分享從來不是歐洲人的強項。

And so the Dutch kicked the Spanish out in 1642, just in time for the rapid collapse of the Ming Dynasty against invading Manchus from the north.

是以，荷蘭人在 1642 年將西班牙人趕走，正好趕上明朝在北方滿清入侵的情況下迅速崩潰。

In a very blunt foreshadowing of things to come, the loyalists of the now-deposed Ming Dynasty fled from the victorious Manchus on the mainland to Taiwan from 1661 onwards, kicking out our Dutch friends in the process.

從 1661 年起，明朝的忠臣們從勝利的滿清統治下的大陸逃到臺灣，並在此過程中趕走了我們的荷蘭朋友。

But the Manchus weren't able to invade Taiwan immediately in pursuit.

They were, after all, steppe nomads with no naval experience to speak of.

他們畢竟是草原遊牧民族，毫無海軍經驗可言。

Instead, they ordered the entire southern coast of China to be evacuated at least 15 kilometers inland.

相反，他們命令整個中國南部沿海地區撤離到至少 15 公里的內陸地區。

Close to a million people were forcibly displaced to prevent any trade with Taiwan and to starve out the Ming holdouts, with questionable results.

為了阻止與臺灣的任何貿易往來，並餓死明朝的頑固派，近百萬人被迫流離失所，結果令人質疑。

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The new Qing dynasty ended up having to invade Taiwan anyway, which they only managed to do 20 years later after building up their navy.

新清王朝最終不得不入侵臺灣，20 年後，他們在建立海軍後才成功入侵臺灣。

And so, in 1683, China invaded Taiwan with over 200 ships and won one of the largest naval battles of the 17th century.

是以，1683 年，中國派遣 200 多艘戰艦入侵臺灣，贏得了 17 世紀最大的海戰之一。

Taiwan's rebel regime was definitively ended and the island was, for the first time, in formal Chinese possession.

臺灣叛亂政權被徹底終結，該島首次正式歸中國所有。

But now that they had it, the Qing weren't quite sure what to do with Taiwan.

但現在，清朝得到了臺灣，卻不知道該如何處置。

Many in the imperial court pushed for it to be abandoned, as it was, by all accounts, a poor backwater with minimal economic and cultural value.

朝廷中的許多人都主張放棄它，因為從各方面來看，它都是一個貧窮的窮鄉僻壤，經濟和文化價值都微乎其微。

The military argued fiercely to keep Taiwan after bleeding so much to occupy it.

為了佔領臺灣，軍方付出了巨大的代價，卻仍激烈地爭辯著要保住臺灣。

And this was indeed what the emperor decided to do, but under strict conditions.

皇帝確實決定這樣做，但條件很苛刻。

Taiwan was to be integrated into China as a prefecture, but with heavy restrictions on settler migration.

臺灣將作為一個縣併入中國，但對移民有嚴格限制。

In this way, foreigners couldn't use it as an outpost and it would be too depopulated to serve as a rebel base.

這樣一來，外國人就無法將其作為前哨站，而這裡的人口也會過於稀少，無法作為叛軍基地。

Taiwan would remain as this frontier military-occupied territory for the next two centuries, producing over a hundred separate rebellions, so much so that the Qing had a proverb about it.

在接下來的兩個世紀裡，臺灣一直是軍事佔領的邊疆領土，曾發生過百餘次叛亂，以至於清朝有一句諺語是這麼說的。

But while the Qing were busy putting down rebellions, the Japanese were getting down and dirty with industrialization.

然而，就在清朝忙於平叛的同時，日本人卻忙著搞工業化。

They beat up the Qing so badly with their new modernized army that China handed over Taiwan, the Liaodong Peninsula and their supposed suzerainty over Korea, which we discussed in another recent sidequest, to Japan.

他們用新的現代化軍隊把清朝打得落花流水，以至於中國把臺灣、遼東半島以及我們在最近的另一個支線任務中討論過的所謂北韓宗主權都拱手讓給了日本。

This time around, it was Qing loyalists that tried to resist a hostile takeover of Taiwan and to their credit, they did proclaim Asia's first republic in the process, but they were violently put down in just under six months.

這一次，清朝的忠實擁護者試圖抵制對臺灣的敵意接管，值得稱讚的是，他們確實在此過程中宣佈成立了亞洲第一個共和國，但他們在不到六個月的時間裡就被暴力鎮壓。

Taiwan was Japan's first colony and, as an eager imperial power, Japan invested heavily in railways, schools and a public health system to show off their colonial prowess in front of the western great powers.

臺灣是日本的第一塊殖民地，作為一個急切的帝國主義國家，日本在鐵路、學校和公共衛生系統方面投入了巨資，以便在西方列強面前展示其殖民實力。

In the meantime, the Manchu-Qing dynasty collapsed and China became a republic, only for it to face regional warlordism and a communist insurgency that Japan was all too eager to exploit in the lead-up to World War II.

與此同時，滿清王朝垮臺，中國成為共和國，但卻面臨著地區軍閥混戰和共產黨叛亂，日本在第二次世界大戰前急於利用這些問題。

By the time Japan surrendered and was forced to return Taiwan to China, the island was already starkly more developed and wealthy than its mainland compatriots.

當日本投降並被迫將臺灣歸還給中國時，臺灣島的發達程度和富裕程度已經遠遠超過其大陸同胞。

But now that Taiwan was with China once more, they all lived happily ever after.

但現在，臺灣再次迴歸中國，他們都過上了幸福的生活。

The republican Chinese government was notoriously corrupt and exploited Taiwan's resources to fight their war in the mainland against the warlords and the communists.

中國共和政府腐敗不堪，利用臺灣的資源在大陸與軍閥和共產黨作戰。

When the mainland war turned against them in 1949, they fled en masse to Taiwan, just like the Ming loyalists three centuries earlier.

1949 年大陸戰爭爆發後，他們像三百年前的明朝忠臣一樣，集體逃往臺灣。

Mao proclaimed the People's Republic of China in October of that year, but just as before, the new mainland Chinese regime had no navy with which to pursue the holdouts on Taiwan.

同年 10 月，毛澤東宣佈中華人民共和國成立，但和以前一樣，新的中國大陸政權沒有海軍來追擊臺灣的頑固派。

The communists weren't even able to take a small island off their own coast, which is miraculously still ruled by Taiwan today.

共產黨甚至沒能奪取自己沿海的一個小島，而這個小島如今奇蹟般地仍由臺灣統治。

So it was clear that taking Taiwan itself would require a lot more preparation.

是以，攻佔臺灣本身顯然需要更多的準備。

Mao ordered the training of a half a million strong invasion force and the construction of thousands of ships, with MiG-15 aircraft being generously provided by the Soviet Union.

毛澤東下令訓練 50 萬入侵部隊，建造數千艘艦船，蘇聯慷慨提供米格-15 飛機。

This new and improved amphibious army would be put to the test the very next spring in the invasion of Hainan, the other big Chinese island that was still under control by the republican holdouts.

第二年春天，這支經過改進的新型兩棲部隊將在入侵海南的戰役中接受考驗。

This time around, the invasion was a resounding success.

Over a hundred thousand men crossed the Chongzhou Strait and secured Hainan in two weeks with relatively few casualties.

十多萬人在兩週內渡過崇州海峽，以較少的傷亡守住了海南。

What was even more emboldening for Mao was the total lack of any reaction by the United States, who had up until then provided the republicans with massive loans and military equipment.

更讓毛澤東膽戰心驚的是，美國完全沒有做出任何反應，而在此之前，美國一直向共和黨提供大量貸款和軍事裝備。

America had made it clear in January 1950 that Japan and the Philippines were within its protective umbrella, but Taiwan and Korea were conspicuously left unmentioned.

美國在 1950 年 1 月明確表示，日本和菲律賓在其保護傘之下，但臺灣和北韓顯然沒有被提及。

This convinced Mao that the Americans had written off republican China, and so he ordered the invasion of Taiwan to commence in the summer of 1950.

這讓毛澤東相信，美國人已經拋棄了共和的中國，是以他下令在 1950 年夏天開始入侵臺灣。

But just as final preparations were underway, Kim Il-sung of North Korea decided to initiate his own invasion plans, of South Korea, with Stalin's blessing and with the same expectation that the US would not intervene.

但就在最後的準備工作正在進行時，北朝鮮的金日成在斯大林的祝福下決定啟動自己的入侵計劃，入侵南朝鮮，並同樣期望美國不會干預。

Unfortunately for Kim and for Mao, the US did intervene.

對金正日和毛澤東來說，不幸的是，美國確實進行了干預。

The fear of a communist Korea being used as a springboard against Japan was simply too great.

共產主義北韓被用作反日跳板的恐懼實在是太大了。

And so President Truman backtracked on America's non-intervention policy by sending the Eighth Army to protect South Korea, and by ordering the Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait to prevent any further expansion by communist China.

是以，杜魯門總統背棄了美國的不干涉政策，派遣第八軍保護南朝鮮，並命令第七艦隊進入臺灣海峽，以防止共產主義中國的進一步擴張。

With Taiwan now under the American defense umbrella, all hopes of invasion were off.

臺灣現在處於美國的防禦保護傘之下，所有入侵的希望都破滅了。

The long standoff had begun, and although America's reasons for protecting Taiwan have changed over the years, its guarantee hasn't wavered so far.

漫長的對峙已經開始，儘管美國保護臺灣的理由多年來一直在變，但其保證至今沒有動搖。

And as odd as it may sound, the man we have to thank for all this is Kim Il-sung, as without the Korean War, the US would have probably let Taiwan fall just like it had done with Hainan.

雖然聽起來有些奇怪，但我們必須感謝金日成，因為如果沒有朝鮮戰爭，美國很可能會讓臺灣淪陷，就像它對海南所做的那樣。

In any case, I want to thank you my friends for watching.

無論如何，我都要感謝各位朋友的收看。

If you enjoyed our brief but exciting tour of Taiwan's survival, consider supporting us on Patreon so that we too can survive any overwhelming invasions by the YouTube algorithm.

如果您喜歡我們短暫而精彩的臺灣生存之旅，請考慮在 Patreon 上支持我們，這樣我們也能在 YouTube 算法的壓倒性入侵中倖存下來。

Also be sure to check out the free online PvP strategy game of our friends over at Supremacy World War 3.

此外，請務必查看我們的朋友在 Supremacy World War 3 上推出的免費在線 PvP 戰略遊戲。

Follow the link in the description within the next 30 days to get a delicious starter pack with an elite bomber seasonal unit and wage your war of global domination.

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In the meantime, let us know what other topics you'd like us to explore next and stay tuned for the next improbably prosperous episode of SideQuest.

同時，請告訴我們您還希望我們探討哪些話題，並敬請期待《SideQuest》下一集的精彩內容。

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