S Korea and Japan are both occupied countries . They are not independent countries, they are abnormal countries.
Thus, the price paid is that they don’t have their national identity. Japan has tried very very hard to be a “normal country”, but failed, because they are not allowed to have their own policy.
In return, they get money and market from the west.
If you India were still under British rule, you might be rich as well. Actually, I met some Indians they love UK more than India.
Thailand is a very interesting country as it is perhaps the only East Asian country that has never been colonized by western powers, since the royal family, educated in the west, knew how to deal with westerners. Together with Malaysia, they were willing to participate in western containment against communism, thus got some bread crumbs dropped off table in return. In fact, Thailand participated Korea War as UN army.
Taiwan falls into the similar category: KMT of ROC carried nearly all of gold reserve from mainland into the tiny island, and received huge US aid to contain against communist mainland.
West Germen was benefitted from Marshall Plan. In fact the whole Europe was benefited from that. US did wisely in WWII and got hugely rich and thus was able to flex its economical muscle to help Europe in a desire to contain communism. In addition, Soviet was known lousy in economic management.
Evidences are strong that many people in this world are mistakenly thinking that communism is monolithic. Heck, they never intend to study the “evilness” as they are brainwashed, or otherwise engineered to consent, not to study the evil, and never thought in a second why the evilness would be accepted by 1/3 of the world population.
For instance, Chinese communism is different from Soviet. The Chinese are allowed to have “private land”, albeit a small allotted piece. That fact itself is in defiance of “standard” communism, at least in some sense. Wise Americans in then heated debate of “who lost China” rightly pointed out that China is not Soviet.
Now, in retrospect, I guess Deng Xiaoping finally realized that money talks, ideology doesn’t. Now it is troubling that in some Western country, fanatics think ideology talks.
An interesting discussion about China is that, many people realized that today China’s foundation for manufacture is established since 1949 where Mao and his fellow relentlessly pursuit for industrialization and literacy. In comparison, India did not experience such movements and thus lacks the infrastructure for manufacture.
Of course, “relentless” could mean some blood.
Hong Kong under early British rule had no freedom, just the same as British India. British introduced some lenient policies only, I guess, around 1970s, such as free (tax less) harbor, etc. Still, no election. Freedom speech is limited. Viceroy is the emperor. Those Chinese in HK worked extremely hard that produced the prosperity we see today. I guess anti-corruption mandated by British in HK (later 70s?) was a big boost for the region’s economy, too.
Yes, the test is going on and many provinces (Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang) in mainland China have individually surpassed Taiwan in economy. List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Same people, different system!
"Invasion of Tibet" is western failtale, and has nothing to do with communism. British invaded Tibet. Is that because birtish is communism? How about democratic India invaded Kashmir? Invaded Goa? Does that mean India is not democratic? How about USA invaded Iraq? Invaded Afganistan? In fact, in human history there are perhaps more democratic countries' invasions than communist countries.
I'm personally against Vietmnam war from China. But looks like this is a problem between two communism, just as problems between to democracy.
Cultural revolution is like collateral damage. Heck, even in a democray we see 2,000,000 children die one year. Right? Actually a renowned HKnese said cultural revolution is the bigest democracy in human history.
Did I say communism is the perfect system?
Please point it out where I said that, or you are engineering a consent blatantly.
In addition, the number doesn't mean right. Quite oftern, truth is in the hand of minority.
I'm telling you, USA is more communism than ever (than China, for instance). Do you need proof?
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