Military of the Republic of China references on wikipedia
Military_of_the_Republic_of_China The Military of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan) encompasses an army, a navy, an air force and a military police. It is a military establishment, which accounted for 16.8% of the central budget in the fiscal year of 2003. It is historically continuous with the Nationalist Army that retreated from mainland China to Taiwan with the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1949 due to the loss of the Chinese Civil War and mainland to the Communist Party of China.