It declined rapidly until the name was all that remained of its former self. After the KMT retreated to Taiwan they had no where else to go, and from 1949-1987 their repression of the press was even worse than it had been in China.
國民黨撤到台灣，退無死所，自四九年起至八七年期間，它對新聞的壓制比在大陸有過之無不及。