In 2007, the United States government agreed to sell 218 AIM-120C-7 missiles to Taiwan as part of a large arms sales package that also included 235 AGM-65G-2 Maverick missiles.

Chiang Kai-shek and 600, 000 Nationalist troops and 2 million refugees, predominantly from the government and business community, fled from the mainland to the island of Taiwan.

Through the support of the Western bloc ( most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China ), the Republic of China on Taiwan retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

In Taiwan, where the Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang ) strongly promoted Confucian beliefs in ethics and behavior, the tradition of the memorial ceremony of Confucius ( 祭孔 ) is supported by the government and has continued without interruption.

The CPC defeated the Nationalists in 1949, forcing Chiang's government to retreat to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted people critical of his rule in a period known as the " White Terror ".

After evacuating to Taiwan, Chiang's government continued to declare its intention to retake mainland China.

Chiang especially antagonized Li by taking possession of ( and moving to Taiwan ) US $ 200 million of gold and US dollars belonging to the central government that Li desperately needed to cover the government's soaring expenses.

Chiang moved the government to Taipei, Taiwan, where he formally resumed duties as President of the Republic of China on March 1, 1950.

He promoted the Uyghur Yulbars Khan to Governor during the Kuomintang Islamic Insurgency in China ( 1950 – 1958 ) for resisting the Communists, even though the government had already evacuated to Taiwan.

The first decades after the Nationalists moved the seat of government to the province of Taiwan are associated with the organized effort to resist Communism known as " the " White Terror ", during which about 140, 000 Taiwanese were imprisoned for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang.

After the passing of Chiang Kai-Shek, the next president, Chiang's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Chiang Ching-kuo's successor, Lee Teng-hui a native Taiwanese, would, in the 1980s and 1990s, increase native Taiwanese representation in the government and loosen the many authoritarian controls of the early era of ROC control in Taiwan.

His government donated money to build the Taipei Grand Mosque on Taiwan.

He continued Truman's policy of recognizing the Republic of China ( based in Formosa / Taiwan ) as the legitimate government of China, not the Beijing regime.

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

The DPP supported reform of the Constitution that would make it official that Taiwan's national government represented only the people of Taiwan and made no claims to territory in mainland China or Mongolia.

Sign designating a sanctioned graffiti zone in Taipei. In Taiwan, the government has made some concessions to graffiti artists.

In 1973 he visited Taiwan, accepting an invitation offered three decades before by the Kuomintang government, in appreciation of The Blue Lotus.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the ROC government on Taiwan maintained itself to be the legitimate ruler of Mainland China.

The move effectively shifted diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, thus angering the government of Taiwan, which described the shift in policy as " reckless.

Analysts also rejected government figures on the number of immigrants from South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

A spokesman for RCA's current owners denied responsibility, saying a study conducted by the Taiwan government showed no correlation between the illnesses and the company's facilities, which shut down in 1991.

However, on 23 August 1992 the Republic of China government, by then only in control of the island of Taiwan and a few minor outlying areas, severed diplomatic relations with South Korea in advance of its announcement of formal recognition of the People's Republic of China based in Beijing.

After the later establishment of the People's Republic of China and its adoption of Hanyu Pinyin, the use of Zhuyin today is limited, but it's still widely used in Taiwan where the Republic of China still governs.

* 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Burkina maintains diplomatic relations with the Republic of China ( usually referred to as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China.

; Taiwan / Republic of China

: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

Though the United States refused to aide Chiang Kai-shek in his hope to " recover the mainland ," it continued supporting the Republic of China with military supplies and expertise to prevent Taiwan from falling into PRC hands.

Costa Rica maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China ( commonly known as " China ") until June 1, 2007, when it opened relations with China.

Confucian temple in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Deployment overseas began in 1954, first to West Germany and later to the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and South Korea.

Both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) have designed several cruise missile variants, such as the well-known C-802, some of which are capable of carrying biological, chemical, nuclear, and conventional warheads.

The Republic of China regime on Taiwan continues to claim a much larger territory encompassing Mongolia and Tannu Uriankhai.

The Index assigns 53 countries to the next category, Flawed democracy: Argentina, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Ghana, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mali, India, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia

Dominica previously maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China, but on 23 March 2004, a joint communique was signed in Beijing, paving the way for diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic.

For every person on Taiwan, there are sixty in Mainland China.

The psychological strategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over thousands of years.

The principal abalone farming regions are China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

* Ailanthus altissima ( Tree of Heaven ) – northern and central mainland China, Taiwan, arguably the best known species.

Other affected areas include the south eastern coast of China and Taiwan.

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

In Yunnan, China, inhabitants would flee from their homes as soon as they saw dead rats, and on the island of Formosa ( Taiwan ), residents considered the handling of dead rats heightened the risks of developing plague.

The map China on the World Factbook includes Taiwan.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

Chad and Taiwan had relations from 1962 to 1972 and 1997 to 2006 when, for financial and security reasons, Chad announced its intention to recognize China.

** Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore