Commentary Consider Taiwan, the former Formosa, a tiny democratic and capitalist country that endures constant harassment from communist China, the third largest country in the world, a mere 90 miles away. For that matter, consider the 1.4 billion people of China who endure abuses and threats or face the ultimate cancellation by their own regime, as many have. Living in a sub-tropical paradise, the mostly ethnic Chinese in Taiwan and the 14 islands of the Taiwan group have since 1949 fashioned a democratic-industrial-agricultural success story. When Gen. Chiang Kai-shek moved his nationalist government to Taiwan in 1949 after Mao Zedong’s victory in the civil war, the process of prosperity and industry truly began, with dictatorship eventually giving way to democracy. The statistics are sanguine. Taiwan ended 2020 as Asia’s top-performing economy. Taiwan’s statistics office pegs the nation’s economic growth in 2020 at 2.98 percent, which not only edges out China …