Thread by @CarlZha

Chiang Kai-shek’s great-grandson Chiang Wan-an is now a Taiwan politician? L(Mao)

Chiang Wan-An’s father Chiang Hsiao-yen is the illegitimate son of frmer Taiwan leader Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek.

3 yrs after Chiang Ching-Kuo returned to China from Soviet Union w wife Faina, he took 27 yr divorcee Chang Ya-juo as his mistress. She bore him twin sons. Because she wants to make their relationship public, Chiang Kai-shek ordered her killed by lethal injection

Chiang Ching-Kuo’s illegitimate twins were raised by their maternal uncle and raise with their mother’s surname Chang. They didn’t dare to assume Chiang family name until Chiang Ching-Kuo’s wife Faina’s death in 2004

Among Chiang Ching-kuo’s legitimate son, eldest Chiang Hsiao-wen was a drunkard, got deported frm US for raising hell at his trial for drunk driving. Also contracted Syphilis that damaged his brain. His health problem made him unfit to succeed

Chiang Ching-kuo’s 2nd legitimate son Chiang Hsiao-wu was groomed for command aft his elder brother proved unfit

Hsiao-wu took control of KMT intelligence service, directed assassination of American writer Henry Liu for writing unauthorized biography of his father. It backfired

After assassination of Henry Liu that derailed Chiang Hsiao-Wu’s political career, Chiang Ching-kuo’s youngest son Chiang Hsiao-yong was groomed to succeed. Hsiao-yong was known as President in waiting.

But Chiang Ching-kuo changed his mind just before his death, so succession

By some account, it was because of assassination of Henry Liu, Chiang Ching-kuo had to announce that his sons won’t succeed him. Chiang Hasio-yung suffered frm cancer.

He visited Chiang hometown on mainland China in 1996 just before he died.

With Chiang Ching-kuo’s legitimate sons out of way, the eldest of his illegitimate twin Chiang Hsiao-yen became FM of so-called “Republic of China” in 1996 and then premier in 1997.

His political career suffered setback when his affair w mistress blew up in 1999