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Eastern Asia, islands bordering the East China Sea, Philippine
Sea, South China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, north of the Philippines, off the
south-eastern coast of China
In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan.
Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist
victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and
established a government.