An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters ? for China, the West and everyone?s future 'An erudite primer . . . Brown's mission to educate westerners about Taiwan and why it matters is a critical one, which makes this book well worth reading' SUNDAY TIMES ? 'Anyone with a care to avoid a third world war ? between China and the US ? should read this book' JACK STRAW ? ?An authoritative primer to all things Taiwan? BARBARA DEMICK When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao?s Communists won and took China?s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek?s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy and an economic success story: just one of its companies produces over 90 per cent of the semiconductors that power the world?s...
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