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“In the post-Korean War era, one crucial strategy the island-based Chinese Nationalists devised was to blend the conceptually still-unfinished Chinese Civil War and its corollary, the mainland counteroffensive, into the international Cold War landscape, thereby linking the fate of Taiwan and the legitimacy of Nationalist rule on the island closely to America's geostrategic interests in East Asia.”
― Hsiao-ting Lin, Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies