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Like that of Japan and South Korea, the trajectory of Taiwan’s political economy in the postwar years was substantially influenced by the United States in the context of the unique postwar international conditions in the region. The United States not only secured the physical survival of the Nationalist state in the postwar years through its military commitment but also substantially affected postwar Taiwan’s political and economic development through its massive economic and military aid, advice, market, capital, technology, training and education, and political support.
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Cai, K.G. (2008). The Taiwanese Political Economy Since 1945. In: The Political Economy of East Asia. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-30522-9_6
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