#Taiwan was returned to China after World War II. In June 1946, however, the Kuomintang armies launched a concerted attack on the liberated areas led by the Communist Party of China, and a large-scale civil war started. Defeated in 1949, the KMT retreated to Taiwan. As a result of the war and the interference of external forces, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have fallen into a state of protracted political confrontation. Yet the bonds of kinship across the Strait have never been broken, and