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Taiwan (from 11) party. A civil war followed, and the Nation-
alists were defeated, with the Nationalists

Taiwan Strait, which leads into the South fl eeing to Taiwan, and the seat of the ROC
China Sea. The 110-mile strait goes di- moving from Nanjing, China to Taipei.
rectly to Taiwan.
PRC established in Beijing
Quick history lesson Across from the Strait of Taiwan, the CCP
Taiwan became part of China’s empire as took power, establishing the People’s Re-
far back as the 17th century. It was then public of China (PRC) in Beijing. Both
ceded to Japan in 1895, after China lost countries said they were the “rightful”
the fi rst Sino-Japanese War. Until the end government of the Chinese territory.
of WWII, it remained a Japanese colony.
The Nationalist
leader in Taiwan
was Chiang Kai-
shek, who said he
would one day re-
take the mainland.
Famously, Mao
Zedong, the PRC
While Taiwan is not a memory production center, the country hosts several producers of semiconductor leader, also vowed
memory, such as Nanya. one day to take
back Taiwan and rule the island and the
After the allied defeat of Japan, China’s mainland as one, unifi ed empire.
ruling Nationalists took control of the is-
land. The Nationalists led Taiwan under And therein lies the crux of the mainland’s
the Republic of China (ROC) fl ag, but came fervent and unrelenting wish to bring the
under attack from the Chinese Communist small island back under the PRC’s control,

most recently led by China’s president for
life Xi Jinping.

Chinese incursions
Incursions near and in what is known as
Taiwan’s Air Defense Identifi cation Zone
(ADIZ) happen with some frequency, al-
though quite irregularly in the past.

In October 2021, the U.S. said it was
“very concerned” by China’s “provoca-
tive” actions after Taiwan claimed some
93 Chinese military planes had fl own into
its ADIZ in the past three days, CBC News
reported.
Founded in 1980, the Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan’s Silicon Val-
ley, occupies 6.5 square km. and is the home of some 530 com-
panies, with most involved in semiconductors or opto-electronics At the time, the U.S. state department
HSP companies account for more than $33.5 billion a year. next page

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