The Taiwan Issue

The U.S. long supported and aided the Nationalists, but in the 1970s Taiwan's international position had eroded. In 1971 it lost China's seat in the UN to the People's Republic of China, and in 1979 the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with the Nationalists to establish relations with the People's Republic of China, although retaining substantial economic and cultural ties.

Martial law, in effect since 1949, was lifted in 1987, and many jailed political dissidents were freed. Opposition parties have gained a few seats at the expense of the ruling Kuomintang party. President Chiang Ching-kuo died in 1988 and was succeeded by a native Taiwanese, Lee Teng-Hui. In 1991 Lee ended emergency rule, which had permitted the domination of the National Assembly by aging mainland delegates elected in 1947.

In 1949, during the revolution of Mao Tse Dung,

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