Originally Posted by smallpox

Japan and South Korea were aided enormously by the US; China is not. Further both came to their senses and realized that to have sustained, stable growth, you need an elected legislative assembly. Plus to my knowledge, Japan has had several parties in its Diet since the San Francisco Treaty.
Taiwan had a government the size for Mainland China concentrating on that small island -- decentralization anyone?
Singapore is a city who's majority are rich entrepreneurs or the least, middle urban class from the start. It did not need to industrialize like China is doing.
So these examples relate little to the Chinese example and is further promoting the fallacious idea that nationalists hold as I mentioned previously.

Originally Posted by GoChina!

aided enormously by the US? this is the main reason?