Which statement accurately describes China after the Civil War?

After the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong’s Communists established the People’s Republic of China on the mainland. Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan, where they continued as the Republic of China. So choice B best describes the outcome, although the Republic of China was the government based on Taiwan rather than simply a new name for the island.

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