Article: TAIWAN RULED UNDER MANY FLAGS.(Local)

Byline: Holger Jensen News International Editor

Nominally part of the Chinese empire since the Song dynasty, (960-1279), Taiwan was inhabited only by non-Chinese aboriginals before the 17th Century.

The Chinese regarded them as savages and never had much interest in the island they now call an ``inalienable part of China's sovereign territory.'' In fact, Bei-jing twice gave it away - to the Portuguese and Dutch - before a Communist regime laid claim to the Taiwan it had never ruled.

Portuguese seafarers established a trading post on what they called Ilha Formosa in 1600. They were followed by the Dutch, who built Fort Zeelandia in 1620 and ...

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