China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by platinumrad on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:43PM (#17193342)

US military and economic support for the ROC may have been a much smaller priority too if the mainland hadn't "gone red". But then again if the ROC had won the mainland, they probably wouldn't have poured resources into the Korean War.

And so on... it's a fascinating sequence of hypotheticals.

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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by SuperNinKenDo on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:55PM (#17193399)

Yeah definitely. Although I've argued the US would probably have poured funds in as a buffer against Russia. Especially given the relationship between USSR and Guomintang was not 100% unambiguously hostile, so the US would want to make sure they weren't tempted to flip by USSR assistance.

I think that the role US money played in Taiwan's success is vastly overplayed anyway. The US basically abandoned them to their fate until the Korean war kicked off.

It's always a fascinating set of hypotheticals like you said.

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