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| '''Chiang Ching-kuo''' (蔣經國, 1910–1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek, premier (1972–1978) and president of the Republic of China on Taiwan (1978–1988).
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| == Career ==
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| * Educated in Moscow (1925–37), worked in Soviet factories, married a Russian (Faina Vakhreva); returned as a hostage-turned-heir.
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| * Ran the Shanghai "tiger hunting" anti-corruption campaign (1948) — crushed by his family's own connected interests, a formative lesson in comprador rot.
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| * Built the Taiwan security state: as head of the secret police he oversaw the White Terror's machinery.
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| * As premier/president: the Ten Major Construction Projects (nuclear power, steel, shipbuilding, highways, the Chiang Kai-shek airport) — state-led industrialization; lifted martial law months before his death (1987), opening the transition to electoral politics.
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| == Assessment ==
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| Ching-kuo is the rare case of a developmental dictator who combined police power with genuine personal austerity and infrastructure-led growth — cited in debates over whether authoritarian development or liberalization produced the "Taiwan miracle" (the answer: the former, with the latter arriving only after industrialization). For Infrared he illustrates the East Asian developmental-state model America abandoned (see [[New Deal]], [[Belt and Road Initiative]]).
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Chiang Kai-shek]]
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| * [[Tridemism]]
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Taiwan]][[Category:People]][[Category:Economics]]
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