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Taiwan is now a creditor economy, holding the world's third largest stock of foreign exchange reserves ($267 billion as of March 2007).
Taiwan is the United States' ninth-largest trading partner; Taiwan's two-way trade with the United States amounted to $57 billion in 2005 and rose 7.6% to $62 billion in 2006.
Taiwan's armed forces are equipped with weapons obtained primarily from the United States.
They in turn were forced to abandon Taiwan in 1662, when Koxinga, a general of the Ming dynasty of China who had to flee from the Manchus, seized the island and established an independent kingdom.
Taiwans international position continued to weaken in the early 1970s as the United States sought to improve relations with the Peoples Republic of China and as more large countries, such as Canada and Japan, moved to recognize the mainland government.
In late 2003 Taiwan passed a law permitting the holding of referendums; the move was stridently criticized by China, which believed the law would be used to obtain a vote for independence, and also criticized by the United States, which regarded such a vote as unnecessarily provocative.
It is bounded to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, to the west by the Taiwan Strait and to the north by the East China Sea.