ABSTRACT
While the Kuomintang imposed martial law to secure cooperation from Taiwan’s residents, the U.S. government helped protect Taiwan from Communist reprisals. During the 1960s and 1970s, Taiwan became one of the East Asian Tigers, Asian economies experiencing explosive growth. Political and social reform, including the creation of an ethnically Taiwanese Democratic Progressive Party opposition, began in 1975 under Chiang Ching-kuo.
