{"id":54,"date":"2005-11-19T22:01:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T03:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:41:16","slug":"taiwanization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/11\/taiwanization\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When President Bush cited Taiwan as a model for mainland China, though he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantfrog.com\/2005\/11\/17\/saru-to-media-did-you-even-read-bushs-speech\/\">wasn&#8217;t quite as aggressive as the headlines<\/a> suggest, he raised some interesting historical specters: what if the Nationalists hadn&#8217;t lost China? Does the success of Taiwan validate the socialist Republicanism (and stages of political development) of Sun Yat-sen? And, of course, is Taiwan&#8217;s model of transition from single-party developmental state to multi-party (if still <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/articles\/4356.html\">somewhat immature<\/a>) democracy with flourishing high-value economy something that China could draw on?<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Meyer, who&#8217;s been studying Taiwan and China for two decades or so <a href=\"http:\/\/madmanofchu.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/coming-knock-on-wood-taiwanization-of.html\">has some thoughts<\/a> on the plausibility of the president&#8217;s model.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/the88s.blogsome.com\/2005\/11\/19\/thought-experiment-on-liberty\/\">analysis, though<\/a> [via Simon World] suggests that the Taiwanisation argument is in no small part wishful thinking to cover up the fact that we don&#8217;t like to admit the developmental success of (some) unfree societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Bush cited Taiwan as a model for mainland China, though he wasn&#8217;t quite as aggressive as the headlines suggest, he raised some interesting historical specters: what if the Nationalists hadn&#8217;t lost China? Does the success of Taiwan validate the socialist Republicanism (and stages of political development) of Sun Yat-sen? And, of course, is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,122,126,149,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-events","category-general","category-post-mao","category-taiwan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}