EUSEBIO AYALA, Paraguay – There are odd couples. Then there’s Taiwan and Paraguay.
The high-tech island nation and its rural, landlocked South American ally sit on opposite sides of the Earth.
United in 1957 by two military rulers — Chiang Kai-shek and Alfredo Stroessner — driven by anti-communist fervor, this improbable duo have been inseparable ever since.
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