Between China and a Hard Place

Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind. How Chinese is Taiwan?

A soldier beneath a photo of Chiang Kai-shek inside the army gymnasium, Taipei, 1950s © Fernand Gigon/Getty Images.
A soldier beneath a photo of Chiang Kai-shek inside the army gymnasium, Taipei, 1950s © Fernand Gigon/Getty Images.

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