Democratization Of Taiwan

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Democratization Of Taiwan

Taiwan is an island country which is located off the southeast coast of China
between the Taiwan Strait and the Philippine Sea. It has a land area of about 32,000
square kilometers, and claims another 3,700 square kilometers of sea around it, giving it
close to a total of 36,000 square kilometers for itself. The land of Taiwan consists mainly
of mountainous terrain in the east while the west has flat plains which can be compared to
the middle central part of the United States. The country has a population of about 22
million people in which 9.7 million of those people are part of the labor force. Some of
the groups that make up this population include native Taiwanese (which includes Hakka,
the originals of the land), mainland Chinese, and aborigines. Taiwan is one of the major
economic powers of East Asia. Taiwan is a truly capitalistic economy in an area where
communism has played a major role in the world over the last 50 years. The GDP has
been growing at a rate of about 8 percent per year over the last few years. Services make
up more than half of Taiwans GDP, while industry and agriculture combine to make up
the for the rest of the GDP. Manufacturing is mainly in electronics and machinery, which
are among Taiwans major exports. (CIA World Factbook, 2000)
Although Taiwan has been a major economic success, its political situation is still
more remarkable. Within the last 50 years, sweeping changes have embraced the political
arena. It was up until World War II that Taiwan was under the control of Japan, an
arrangement which resulted from the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. (Rigger 34, 1999)
However in 1945, at the end of the war, Taiwan was given back to China as part of
Japans punishment. The Taiwanese, excited by the fact that once again they were to be
reunited in a way, with the mainland China. What had happened however was vastly
different from what was expected. The Kuomuntang (KMT) or the Nationalist party
had set foot in Taiwan for the Republic of China (ROC) in 1945, and viewed the
Taiwanese as traitors for being a part of the Japanese army, and for their lost ties to
traditional or mainland China. (Copper 35, 1999) It was during this time that corruption
and violence gripped Taiwan, which in essence was used mainly as a production facility of
supplies for the Nationalists fight against Communism on the mainland. In 1949, the
Chinese Communist Party completely took over mainland China, resulting in the
Nation...

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