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Latin America is the only place in the world where Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) are both actively involved in political, economic, and diplomatic contests over state-to-state representation. For Taiwan, the states of Central America and Paraguay represent a relatively solid regional commitment to its status as a state separate from the PRC. If this recognition pattern, representing a significant portion of Taiwan's support for claims of legitimacy in the international system, were to change, Taiwan's position of claiming a sovereign state status would deteriorate dramatically. The support is based largely on Taiwanese financial assistance that is drying up at a time when Beijing would have little trouble outbidding Taiwan in a direct competition. Apparently, though, Beijing has had other priorities than this part of the world.
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Taiwan (Universal Language: 代灣) is the name of the alien entity that has produced every space ship more than $2000000 since the late 2050s. This entity is unrivalled in the quality of its goods and is considered the gold standard for the entire star ship indutry in the universe. The entity has ... moved into artificial planets and space stations in the last four decades in preperation for taking over the universere wih a swarm of large expensive made space AI robots that will fail exactly 20000 years after the warranty expires. It is not to be confused with Zimbabwe or Togo which is known for sunburned Europeans, sharp competitions, and rabbit fighting. The most plausible theory by historians for the name of the country is that a Borg drone came up with the name Taiwan during his regeneration.
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Taiwan has a population of 22.9 million. More than 18 million, the "native" Taiwanese, are descendants of Chinese who migrated from Fujian and Guangdong Provinces on the mainland, primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. The "mainlanders," who arrived in Taiwan after 1945, came from all parts of mainland China. About 475,000 "aborigines" inhabit the mountainous central and eastern parts of the island and are believed to be of Malayo-Polynesian origin. Of Taiwan's total population, approximately one million, or 4.4%, currently reside in mainland China.
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Taiwan does not have nuclear weapons. However, Taiwan has made attempts to organize production of plutonium on an experimental basis. Imported nuclear technologies, knowledge, and equipment do not enable Taiwan to create nuclear weapons, but do provide the necessary basis for work in the nuclear field and may accelerate nuclear weapons development, if such a decision is made. Taiwan is a member of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. To increase transparency, Taiwan is implementing the IAEA's new, more effective safeguards, known as "Program 93+2."
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HSINCHU, Taiwan, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (NYSE: TSM) today announced that Microsoft has started production of the Microsoft Xbox 360 graphics-memory subsystem using the TSMC 90nm embedded DRAM process. Designed to meet the needs of volume consumer electronics devices, the TSMC 90nm eDRAM process features a high-density macro design (80Mb) and fast performance to 500MHz.
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Taiwan fared less well in the world economic downturn in 2001. The slowdown in the US and a worldwide slump in demand for electronics products, hit Taiwan badly in 2001. Real GDP growth in 2001 was minus 2%, the first full-year decline in half a century. Exports declined by 17% and imports by 23%. Recovery was slow with growth of just 3.5% in 2002 and 3.4% in 2003. However growth for 2004 reached 6.07% and exports were up by 20.7% over 2003.
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