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The island of Taiwan has been populated by the local aboriginal people called “Austrone-sian” for approximately since 4,000 BC. Taiwan was officially regarded by Qing Emperor Kangxi as "a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization" and has been ruled in the past by the Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Many Taiwanese fought for Japan during World War 2. Ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT) party, for 40 years it was a single party state and only became a democracy as the ROC in 2000 when President Chen Shui-bian was elected to be the first ever non KMT president of Taiwan. Taiwan consists of 14 islands of which the main one is 240miles long by 90 miles wide.
Talks of connecting the island with mainland China have been speculative in regards to inflating the current housing prices by 3 times. Office rent is very cheap in Taiwan, com-pared to other big cities like Hong Kong, the rent in Taipei s about 1/3. This makes for a very attractive proposition for overseas investors to set up shop in Taiwan. What could possibly hold them back is the government’s red tape when it comes to investing into property from overseas.
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