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The island of Taiwan was conquered by the Qing Dynasty of China in 1683 and later ceded to Japan following China's military defeat in 1895. Imperial Japan surrendered control of the island to Republic of China forces in 1945 on behalf of the Allied powers. Following the Chinese civil war, which resulted in victory on the mainland for the communists, some 2 million nationalists fled to Taiwan and founded a government based on the Republic of China's 1947 Constitution for...

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