Commentary
Taiwan, like Canada, is a multicultural country. Its residents migrated mainly from the South Pacific islands and the southern coast of China in the 13th century, and again during the 17th to 19th centuries. Over the past 400 years, Taiwan has been ruled at various times by the Dutch Republic, Spain, House of Koxinga, Qing Dynasty, Japan, and the Chiang Kai-shek regime. Democratic reforms began in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until the first presidential election in 1996 that Taiwan truly became a democracy.
