Do We Really Want a New Cold War?

[Farsala]

Mnementh said:

Farsala said:

You forget to mention that all 3 were occupied by the US. Even Vietnam became less communist and more sympathetic to the west after a brief occupation. Hong Kong and Macau was occupied for a long time. Germany was occupied by the west and the USSR, but eventually the western occupation won out. That kind of points to occupying China as better.

Taiwan was never occupied by the US. South Korea wasn't really, but they both fought together against North Korea. But the military dictatorship remained long after the Korean War. The internal change in South Korea wasn't through militaric action. The only one that changed strongly during the occupation was Japan, as a loser in WW2. But even since then, Japan made a lot of modernization.

That's true, they were occupied by Japan. After the war they looked to Japan for guidance, since they were enemies of the CCP. So I put them together.