The Kuomintang was led by Chiang Kai-shek, who was elected President of the Republic of China till the revolution by Mao Zedong forced him and his Kuomintang party to flee to Taiwan in 1948 and ...
forcing Chiang Kai-shek and the defeated Republic of China government to flee to Taiwan in 1949. Despite their democratically-elected government, currency, passports and international diplomatic ...