Nation Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim Lesson

The recent history of Japan, Vietnam, and the smaller Southeast Asian nations have significant differences from other Asian and African states. Japan remained independent, industrialized, and became a great imperialist power. After World War II, Korea, Taiwan, and other industrializing nations gave the Pacific Rim new importance. China and Vietnam had suffered from Western and Asian imperialists. With their traditional order in ruins, they had to face the usual problems of underdeveloped, colonial, peoples. Full-scale revolutions occurred. By the beginning of the 21st century, the result of all the changes gave East Asia a new importance in world affairs.

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