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The Taiwan story : how a small island will dictate the global future
Brown, Kerry, 1967-2025
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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 the island Taiwan. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy, has a successful economy - underpinned by a single company producing 85% of the world's semiconductors: the beating heart of the world economy - and a free, diverse society. For the US and the West, the island is a bastion of freedom against Chinese aggression in the region. And yet China, increasingly bellicose under Xi Jinping, insists Taiwan is part of its territory and must be returned to it. Should China blockade the island and mount an invasion, it would set off a chain reaction that would pitch it against the US - escalating a regional war into a global one.
Main title:
Author:
Brown, Kerry, 1967-, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2025.
Collation:
288 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Viking, 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781405966092 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
951.249062951.249
Language:
English
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BRN:
8980062