Chiang dreamed that Taiwan would reunify with the mainland, and he brooked no dissent.
Approximately two-thirds of children are reunified with their parents; the median time to reunification is 7 months.
"And at every opportunity, he expressed his desire to stay in China, reunify with his family, continue his education and work for reforming his country.
Some lost sight of their families at checkpoints or were taken into state custody.Around 2,000 children were reunified with their families in the early post-war period.
China has long threatened to use force against Taiwan if it declares outright independence or refuses to agree eventually to reunify with the mainland.
Since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek's defeated Nationalist forces fled to Taiwan, China's Communist government has considered the island a breakaway territory that must eventually be reunified with the mainland.
Once all Muslims have been deported from Europe, Kosovo will be "reunified with Serbia once again".Bosnia, too, is to disappear from the map, in a manner that recalls the failed attempts of the 1990s to divide it between Serbia and Croatia.
If it were not for the "American imperialists" inserting the United States Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, they say, Taiwan would long ago have been reunified with mainland China, erasing that "national humiliation".
The Good Friday agreement of 1998 effectively ended 30 years of strife with a power-sharing pact between Protestant unionists, who form the majority and want to remain part of Britain, and Catholic republicans, who want to reunify with Ireland.
In an attempt to boost Taiwan's economy, Ma Ying-jeou, the outgoing president, has overseen an unprecedented rapprochement with China's Communist leaders who still view the island as a renegade province that should be "reunified" with the mainland.
