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Thank you guys for all the info.
I found an article on CBC.ca, "Taiwan's tug of war":
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/taiwan/
Excerpt:
......The Dutch invaded just over a century later, lost the island briefly to Spain, and then regained and kept it until the 1660s, when they lost it for good to the Ming and Manchu dynasties. The two dynasties then fought each other for control until the Manchus emerged as victors. The Manchus made Taiwan a county of Fujian province and Chinese immigrants flooded the island.
In 1895, Japan took control of Taiwan after China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese war. But China reclaimed the island after Japan's defeat at the end of the Second World War.
When the Chinese civil war ended in 1949, with Communist forces taking control of China, President Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist party, the Kuomintang (KMT), fled to Taiwan.
An estimated 1.5 million to two million Chinese followed Chiang to Taiwan. Today, the leaders of both mainland China and Taiwan claim to be the rightful rulers of China.
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The 57-year-old Ma has promised to deepen economic links with the mainland and negotiate a new peace treaty.
"Under my presidency, there will be peace and prosperity across the Taiwan Strait instead of confrontation and tension,'' Ma told the Bloomberg news agency in an interview shortly before the election. |
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