The People’s Republic of China this week has celebrated 70 years of existence. At the start of October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the new state at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, marking the end of a bloody civil war against the previous government of China under Chiang Kai-shek, who by that time evacuated the remnants of his Nationalist army and his supporters (together almost three million people) to Formosa/Taiwan, ceding the mainland the Reds.