The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan #joyce seven-hundred boys

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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan #joyce seven-hundred boysIn the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast of Fujian. Handed to the Kuomintang ruled Republic of China, in 1949 it suddenly became the focus of global attention as a random cross section of defeated Nationalists, including President Chiang Kai shek, fled there from Mao's triumphant Communist