Authorities in Taiwan are reopening one of its biggest tourist attractions, the mausoleum of its late dictator Chiang Kai-shek. The mausoleum was closed last December because the then ruling Democratic Progressive Party said democratic Taiwan should stop honouring a Ma inaugurated as Taiwan's president ...
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But many in the incoming ruling Nationalist Party say Chiang blocked a communist invasion and contributed to Taiwan's security and economic development. Chiang ruled Taiwan with an iron grip after his Nationalists were defeated by Mao Zedong's communists in China and fled to the island in 1949.
(Deutsche Welle)
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