Here's a little island of less than 20 million people.

The only vehicle on this island of 20,000 people belongs to the District Commissioner.

That is the name of the mountainous, rural island of 80,000 people where the group was founded 19 years ago.

But it is also a symbol of a series of difficult choices facing this entire island of 1.2 million people.

Taiwan is an island of 23 million people facing many challenges, from economic transformation to its very national identity.

Now, China's leadership hopes to propel this impoverished island of six million people into the future.

The Government said today that 2,000 more police officers and carabinieri were on their way to this island of five million people.

The island of 20,000 people has seven nurses and one clinical officer, who are overrun with patients.

Taiwan is still a tiny island of 23 million people living 90 miles off the coast of a China with 1.3 billion people.

How is a small island of 4.4 million people supposed to cope with this madness?