ABSTRACT
Wang Sheng had endeavored to sketch out for him the parallels he saw between the Paraguayan situation and with younger man, Wang had encountered in Jiangxi, more specifically in Gannan. The best that could be said of Paraguay's political history up to 1983 was that it had produced an impressive string of dictators, the latest of whom, the then 71-year-old General Alfredo Stroessner, had assumed power in 1954. What Wang Sheng discerned early on was that it was not just its wealth and foreign characteristics which made the Chinese community such an inviting target. As a Kuomintang (KMT) stalwart such as Wang Sheng interpreted the world, an interpretation explicitly laid out in San Min Chu-i, the two qualities of freedom and organization were not opposites but linked in symbiotic relationship. During the entire time Wang Sheng had been posted to Paraguay, he had not returned home to Taiwan. Military cooperation continued, with technical and training missions arriving from Taiwan.
