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U.S. economic aid to Taiwan ceased in 1965. Mostly agrarian Taiwan needed to come up with new ways to make money... and it did! From manufacturing Barbie dolls to computers, here’s the story of what many call the island’s “economic miracle.”
Cover image: The Taipei skyline - via Wikimedia Commons / 毛貓大少爺 from Taipei, Taiwan - https://www.flickr.com/photos/92975612@N02/49395040528/
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Zhong Zhen 3rd Road in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan is contrasted in photos from 1953 and 2020 - (Pics via Facebook/Old Kaohsiung Photos Group)
Check our very first episode, the story of a very white man who showed up in London in 1703... and claimed to be from Formosa. Or try a foodie episode from Season 3. Or, for those who want some harder-core history, hear the tale of the Lockheed U-2 pilot Wang Hsi-chueh 王錫爵, who became was famous for defecting to the PRC by hijacking China Airlines Flight 334 on May 3, 1986.
