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Taiwan: A Model for the Third World |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Lee Edwards |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,666 Words, 16,317 Characters |
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In 1950, when experts in international relations were asked to name new or soon-to-be-new nations that would in fairly short order achieve economic success and political maturity, and perhaps serve as a model for other emerging nations, they usually suggested countries like Nigeria and Kenya in Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia in Asia, Argentina and El Salvador in Latin America. Not to be found on anyone's list was the Republic of China (ROC).
In fact, most of the U.S. academic community dismissed the Nationalist Chinese, who had decisively lost the civil war to the Chinese communists on the mainland and had set up a lonely government-in-exile on the island of Taiwan, as a regime that was bound to fail. They urged the State Department to recognize reality and the People's Republic of ...
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...less, there is much to be learned from the Taiwan experience. The history of the ROC demonstrates what a small, resource-poor nation can accomplish when it has the right conditions. It is a history that bears close study by Third World nations that are tired of collectivist nostrums and have the wisdom, patience, and discipline to build over time a better and freer society for their people.
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