The Taiwan Story - How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future

An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters - for China, the West and everyone-s future'An erudite primer . . . Brown's mission to educate westerners about Taiwan and why it matters is a critical one, which makes this book well worth reading' SUNDAY TIMES - 'Anyone with a care to avoid a third world war - between China and the US - should read this book' JACK STRAW - -An authoritative primer to all things Taiwan- BARBARA DEMICK When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao-s Communists won and took China-s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek-s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy and an economic success story: just one of its companies produces over 90 per cent of the semiconductors that power the world-s economy. It is a free and vibrant society. For the United States and the West, the island is a bastion of freedom against