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A lesson America has never learned

· By Mauro Gia Samonte
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EVERYBODY knows that as a result of the five-year civil war in China, the Communist Party of China gained political control, establishing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. But the Kuomintang forces had not been totally defeated. They retreated to Taiwan (then Formosa) and there continued to maintain what…

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