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Yes and no. Yes we pumped a lot of money into those countries to fight communism but at the same time we also tried to keep off. Singapore and Hong Kong were part of the UK for a while - hell Hong Kong til a few years recently.
Im saying their boom a decade or so ago wasn't as much the U.S. pumping money in - they helped rebuild it decades ago and sure htat gave them the infrastructure, but it was the jump start and to acutally get to where they were requires more than that of course.
And the thing is, those nations / locales were ravaged by war. Taiwan was merely where the Nationalist party fled to after the Communists took over mainland China. Singapore & Hong Kong had been taken by the Japanese in WW2. Japan you already know what happened during the war there.
The U.S. helped pump money - but i will tell you this, it wasn't as much as West Europe. Europe got like $10 billion and Asia less than a billion.
I'd say more or less that in the end they developed independently. The U.S. itself rebuilt a lot of Japan. But to say their technological strides and advancments today, hell even a decade ago, weren't independent is somewhat wrong.
Anyways the U.S. depends so much on other countries theres really no reason we should even be trying to stifle other countries growth. If no countries were run by nutcases and would rather benefit humanity instead of their own ends, i think it would help things around a lot.
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