ChineseTiger1986
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...absolutely right, setting the Taiwan as the one superhero industrialized Chine - a "lil" (a huuuge one in reality) exxageration. Soviet Union industialized China (Liberated by destruction Kwantung army - basicaly entire Army of Japan, armed, and made communist), hundreds of thousands of chineese students were having education in SU for the above mentioned Industies transfer ... and then yep, . you put it ... 'switch'
...there's "millions" of "Institutes" of studying/modern/whatever Russia exists ... mostly doing just rubbish production and money consumption ... -- the face of "modern Russia" - corrupt and useless elites consuming resources...
USSR did play the key role for China's early industrialization. However, Russia itself was de-industrialized after the collapse of the USSR.
I think if Russia could adopt China's current political/economic model, then Russia will have a chance to be re-industrialized again to become a manufacturing powerhouse.
China needs an ideological high ground to prove that her own ideology is superior to the western counterpart. And with Russia's participation and success, it will greatly bolster China's political/economic model.
Putin is making Russia more authoritarian than ever after the collapse of USSR, so it is quite clearly which side he is leaning.
This article is written by someone that know his/her own trade, but not much outside his/her field. Taiwan looks good in semiconductors, but is actually only good at MARKETING a few commercialized applications of semiconductors. That's it.
China didn't industrialize over one generation. China's real industrialization started in th 50' with the Soviet Union's SYSTEMATIC transfer of a bundle of 100+ entire industries, as part of bargain in the aftermath of the Korean war.
China has many industries that simply doesn't exist in TW. The real impact of process in the article is TW is one of the early birds (and more investments from SEA Chinese ethnic groups) when China switched from the Soviet economic bloc into the Europan/American bloc.
Taiwan did help China to reduce the gap with the West on some degree, but China's industrial foundation was laid down in the early 1950s with the help of the USSR.
China was capable to build the H-bomb and ICBM back in the 1960s, and a lot of so-called 'modern developed countries' aren't capable to achieve this feat yet.