> I don't know about the other NICs, but here in Taiwan there is no clash
> between the "developmentalists" and the "neoliberals." No one challenges the
> market, and there's little left of the developmental state.
Not within the semi-peripheries themselves, I'm talking about the neoliberals on Wall Street vs. the East Asian developmental states. The Taiwanese state is no friend of the market; the credit and finance system is heavily state-controlled, the Yuan passed a bunch of measures to deal with the SE Asian crash, science and tech are heavily subsidized, and imports are carefully screened and exports no less carefully pushed. The socialisms of the future could learn a lot from this.
Plus, it's always nice to see one-party states get trounced at the polls. I just wish the US could be so lucky.
-- Dennis