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Taiwan is an island located about 100 miles from China. It
was originally part of China. But in 1949, the communists
seized Mainland China forcing the nationalists to retreat to
Taiwan. From then on, Taiwan is also known as Free
China. The leaders of Republic of China, (Free China)
hoped someday that the communists will be driven out of
China. Therefore, they start to build Taiwan as a military
base for such purpose. However, their dreams were never
accomplished, instead, their efforts turned Taiwan into a
economic powerful country. This is also known as the
Taiwan Miracle. There is another interesting information
about Taiwan's name. Despite Free China, Taiwan also has
two other names, "Taiwan" (the one we call it) and
"Formosa". Let's talk about "Taiwan" first. "Taiwan" means
"terraced bay" to the mountain tribal people who originally
lives in Taiwan. When the immigrants from China migrated
to this island 3 hundreds years ago, they kept hearing the
tribal people......

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