ASIA’S STRONGMEN. 1st row: Korea’s Park Chung-hee, Taiwan’s Chiang Kai-shek and son Chiang Ching-kuo; 2nd row: Singapore’s Lee, Thailand’s Thanom, and Indonesia’s Suharto; 3rd row: Marcos and Malaysia’s Mahathir.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and then his son Chiang Ching-kuo, ruled Taiwan with an iron fist from the day they fled to the island from China in 1947 after their Kuomintang forces were defeated by Mao Zedong’s forces, to the time Taiwan embraced democracy in 1988.

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