It is also a lot smaller than mainland China, with a much smaller population.
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> [WS:] Of course it is not, but it can be used as a
> decent counterfactual to China. It has a lot of
> "ceteris paribus" qualities - rural backwardness,
> similar culture, similar general approach to
> moderization (centralism, import substituton
> policies). What they separates them, inter alia, s
> the anti-intellectualism cum anti-Sovietism
> unleashed
> by Mao agianst his "revisionist" pro-modernization
> rivals (Liu Shaotsi sp?). I think that this rural
> idiocy (decenralization of industry to rural
> comunes,
> forced relocation of urban population to the
> countryside) was a big setback to China's
> development.
>
> In the meantime, Taiwan was gradually reducing its
> import substitution policies and encouraged export
> oriented policies which eventually established it as
> a
> hi-tech power house.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
>
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