W2, for example. The communist mainland was forced to start from the ground up, more or less, receiving much less aid and having vastly greater problems of organization, due to size and the rural state of the population. Taiwan made quick, important gains in schools and infrastructure as well, reinvesting money with the purpose to make Taiwan rich. Taiwan was, due to foriegn connections, especially with the USA, also the first and only representatives of Chinese people in the international community. They filibustered and protested very loudly whenever the CCP tried to gain voice in international forums like the UN, and insisted for a very long time that they(Taiwan) represented the entire land area inhabited and governed by the CCP. They had a thriving international lassiez-faire economy that also interested foreign powers in keeping the statist mainland from absorbing Taiwan. Taiwan was also quick to arm, due to militaristic preoccupation and the threat of mainland China. For many years, possibly even today, China could not annex Taiwan w

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