Fair enough--I should have said inspired by rather than wholesale copied. I do see a remarkable parallel there between the KMT having lost one country due in p

Fair enough--I should have said inspired by rather than wholesale copied. I do see a remarkable parallel there between the KMT having lost one country due in part to extreme economic disparity, redistributes wealth to maintain control in a second; and the later economic disparity you eloquently describe between China and Taiwan that inspires the reverse.