Day 6 (12 March 2016) in Taipei, Taiwan

Today is my last day in Taiwan. It was very tight schedule but very successful trip. All my flight schedule was as planned. Just before I concluded my blogs for this trip, I just want to say something about Taiwan. 
Taiwan (formerly known as "Formosa"), which was mainly inhabited by Taiwanese aborigines until the Dutch and Spanish settlement during the Age of Discovery, is a sovereign state in East Asia. In the 17th century the Han Chinese began immigrating to the island. In 1662, they expelled the Dutch and established the first Han Chinese polity on the island, called the Kingdom of Tungning. The Qing dynasty of China later defeated the kingdom and annexed Taiwan. In 1912 the Republic of China (ROC) was established in mainland China. After world war II, in 1945 Japan's surrender and the ROC gained control of Taiwan. During the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party of China took full control of mainland China and founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. ROC loyalists fled to Taiwan and re-established the national government there, claiming to be the legitimate government of all of China. The ROC continued to represent China at the United Nations until 1971, when the PRC assumed China's seat via Resolution 2758. The ROC lost UN membership. International recognition of the ROC gradually eroded as most countries switched their 'China' recognition to the PRC. 21 UN member states and the Holy See (Catholic Church in Rome) currently maintain official diplomatic relations with the ROC. Numerous other states maintain unofficial ties through representative offices via institutions that function as de facto embassies and consulates.
In the 1980s and early 1990s Taiwanese society transformed itself from a military dictatorship (one-party rule) to a multi-party democracy with universal suffrage. Today Taiwan maintains an advanced industrial economy and become one of the Four Asian Tigers  (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) and is a member of the WTO and APEC. Its high-tech industry plays a key role in the global economy. Taiwan, in which its economy is the 21st largest economy in the world, is ranked highly in terms of freedom of the press, health care, public education, economic freedom, and human development.
Since 1945 Taiwan has a number of unresolved issues; which include: the complication about exact nature of Taiwanese national identity, its ambiguous international status, and its difficulty of maintaining relations with the PRC across the Taiwan Strait. Within Taiwanese society these issues always generate debate among political parties and candidates. Despite all these complications, according to the 2014 estimate, Taiwan's GDP (nominal) is $505.452 billion (26th in the world) and per capita is $21,571 (39th in the world).