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CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 16
16.433 million (2009)
Telephones - mobile cellular World Ranking: 35
27.84 million (2009)
Telephone system
General assessment
Provides telecommunications service for every business and private need Domestic Thoroughly modern; completely digitalized International Country code - 886; roughly 15 submarine fiber cables provide links throughout Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Broadcast media
5 nationwide television networks operating roughly 75 TV stations; about 85% of households utilize multi-channel cable TV; national and regional radio networks with about 170 radio stations (2008) Internet country code
.tw
Internet hosts World Ranking: 17
6.166 million (2010)
Internet users World Ranking: 24
16.147 million (2009)
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In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using the 1947 constitution drawn up for all of China. Over the next five decades, the ruling authorities gradually democratized and incorporated the local population within the governing structure. In 2000, Taiwan underwent its first peaceful transfer of power from the Nationalist to the Democratic Progressive Party. Throughout this period, the island prospered and became one of East Asia's economic "Tigers." The dominant political issues continue to be the relationship between Taiwan and China - specifically the question of Taiwan's eventual status - as well as domestic political and economic reform.