The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future Matthew L. Tompkins accessible and popular guide to

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The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future Matthew L. Tompkins accessible and popular guide toIn this urgent book, we learn why a small island in the East China Sea will be central to the world's future. 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