tions The author begins Chapter 2 Taiwan Industrial Island with a brief Taiwan the island of Formosa was once a Dutch trading centerThen it became a part of the Chinese province of Fukien in 1683With this Chinese began immigratingThe Japanese realized the agricultural potential of the islandThey built roads railways and harborsAfter the Second World War the islands economy which had been based on exporting food and raw material to Japan was now greatly In 1949 when the Kumintang moved to the island so came over one million refugees fleeing from the communist mainlandThe first priority of the new Republic of China was its military
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