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Sun Kuo-hsi vividly remembers the chaos of the final years of the Chinese civil war and the government forces he fought for collapsing in front of Mao Zedong's Communists, forcing him to flee by boat to Taiwan in 1949 in a perilous eight-day crossing. "There was no dock; everyone was splashing around in the water," Sun, 110, told Reuters in his government-run veterans care home in the northern Taiwanese city of Taoyuan. Although the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taiwan more than seven decades ago and remains there to this day, there was never a peace treaty to end the war with the People's Republic of China. ....

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