Name: How Taiwan Became the Biggest Risk for a U.S.-China Clash
Uploaded: 2021-06-24T13:25:45.000Z
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One way that people have seen that globally

It's an island of less than 24 million people,

is not considered an independent country by Beijing.

China has long viewed Taiwan as its lost territory

and threatened to unify with it by force.

only 15 states in the world recognize Taiwan today,

Although there are no formal diplomatic relations

The U.S. is Taiwan's biggest arms supplier,

passed through the rule of Dutch and Spanish colonizers,

its aboriginal peoples and Chinese dynasties.

In 1895, the Qing dynasty of China lost Taiwan

to Japan after a humiliating military defeat.

Japan wanted to make Taiwan into a model colony,

using it as an example to persuade other Asian nations

they improved health and built a lot of infrastructure.

of the more developed parts of the region.

The Republic of China rapidly lost the Chinese Civil War

and as a result ended up on Taiwan as a regime in exile

with very few resources, a lot of refugees,

a very poor population struggling to survive.

Taiwan relied heavily on U.S. economic aid,

most of that aid was phased out as the U.S. wanted Taiwan

moving from an import substitution policy,

which replaced foreign imports with homemade goods,

mostly consumer goods to the United States.

And as a consequence, over the next 20 to 30 years,

the government in Taiwan started to think

how do we take the next step in our economic development?

And they identified among many areas semiconductors

So that really took off in the 1990s with the growth

of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

now today is an absolutely crucial company

for any company that's making technology.

You know, their chips are in smartphones,

they're in tablets, they're in computers,

they're in games consoles and they're in cars as well.

in a fairly strong position that it is a key node

And so it is a really, really valuable partner

Taiwan's political landscape also changed dramatically.

Under the rule of the Chinese Nationalist Party, or KMT,

for four decades Taiwan was an authoritarian regime

until the end of martial law in the late 1980s.

Then Taiwan gradually transitioned to democracy.

The first direct presidential elections took place in 1996,

followed by several peaceful transfers of power.

is the current party that governs Taiwan.

They were a party that came out of this movement

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How Taiwan Became the Biggest Risk for a U.S.-China Clash

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