How Taiwan Went from Martial Law to Democracy-That’s So Asian Ep. 2
Taiwan a democracy, China a dictatorship, this is the political landscape we have long taken for granted. However, there was a time where the situations of the two countries were reversed, with Taiwan under martial law and ironfisted rule of the Chiang family, and China opening up to liberalism and Western culture under Deng Xiaoping’s reform. How did the hopeful democratic movement in China end up shattered by the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre? What was the key to Taiwan’s transformation from an airtight authoritarian regime to one of the top-ranking democracies around the globe? Learn more about how dynamics of international relations in the 1980s shaped the world as we know it today.
