In 1949, the Nationalist government fled to Taiwan, hanging on to the last bit of Chinese territory that had not been taken by the Communist Party. However, it was only 40 years later that the ideals of freedom and democracy formally extolled by the ROC were put into practice.
民國三十八年，國府流亡台灣，堅守神州最後一塊未被赤化的淨土，立國的自由民主信念卻遲至四十年後才稍有成績。