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Nature 407, 419 (21 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35030337
regional insight Building a progressive sci-tech island
David Cyranoski
In 1949, a rag-tag Chinese nationalist army (Kuomintang or KMT) fled the communist army of Mao Tse-tung and took refuge on the island of Taiwan — officially taking the name Republic of China. The KMT controlled the island until the election of Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in March this year.
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