Recent events in relation to Taiwan and Hong Kong show that the Chinese Communist Party is showing increasing sophistication in dealing with ethnic Chinese societies overseas in a way which protects its interests.After Mao Zedong seized control of China in October 1949, at the end of over 20 years of civil war, the defeated Nationalists retreated to the island of Taiwan, off the coast of China, where they established the government of the Republic of China.From that time onwards, Beijing has eng…
