如今为什么台湾在经济上落后大陆那么多？ [美国媒体]

Why is Taiwan so economically behind Mainland China these days?

如今为什么台湾在经济上落后大陆那么多？




Alan Chiu, I read many modern Chinese history books
Updated Aug 21
Taiwan is not economically behind Mainland China. I’ll write about the economic problem of Taiwan instead.

台湾经济并不落后中国大陆。但是我想说说台湾所面临的经济问题。



In short, Taiwan didn’t make the necessary structural changes when it transitioned to democracy. Worse yet, it doesn’t seem to recognize what needs to be done, so my prediction is things won’t get better in the foreseeable future.

总之，台湾在变成民主国家后没有在结构上进行必要的改变。更糟的是，台湾貌似还没认识到自己应该做什么，所以我的预测是在可预见的将来台湾的情况不会变好。

Ian Hu, PhD Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Answered Feb 26, 2017
So I’m Taiwanese. Thanks very much for the compliments regarding Taiwan in the other responses though but there are other things to be said.

我是台湾人。感谢其他网友对台湾的称赞。但是我还想说说其他方面的一些事情。

First things first. As an economy 200 times smaller than China, Taiwan would naturally have disadvantages, just as any small country. But the Taiwanese economic structure is in very dire trouble currently. We have to speak some history now to get things in place. Right after the Nationalist Party (or KMT) took over Taiwan after WWII (in one of the responses saying Taiwan gained independence at 1949, that’s theoretically not correct; Taiwan was given up by Japan as a colony but never really gained independence), the US and the Allies, to stop the commies from spreading, started supporting Taiwan economically and dumped massive amount of resources, helped stabilised the economy and Taiwan successfully transformed into a industrial economy in the 80s. This is about the same time when the US realised that the KMT government will never retrieve China back from the commies and decided to recognise China as a genuine country and lessened the aid towards Taiwan.

首先，中国经济是台湾的200倍，所以台湾自然有其劣势，正如其他小国一样。但是目前台湾的经济结构深陷麻烦。我们先来回顾一下历史。二战结束国民党接管台湾（有个网友说台湾在1949年获得独立，理论上这是不对的；日本是以殖民地的方式放弃台湾的，但是台湾从来没获得独立），美国和同盟国为了阻止GC主义者的扩散，就开始在经济上支持台湾，给台湾提供了大量资源，帮助稳定经济，于是台湾成功的在80年代成为了一个工业经济体。也就在这个时候，美国意识到国民党永远也无法反攻大陆，于是决定承认中国为一个国家，减少了对台湾的援助。



Why is Taiwan so economically behind China these days? Well maybe not these days, but in the near future if nothing changes, and it’s because complacency, shortsightedness and lack of prudence of the Taiwanese firms and government.

为什么现在的台湾经济如此落后于中国？可能不止是如今，如果不改变，在可预见的未来都会如此。而原因就出在台湾企业和政府的自满，短视以及缺乏审慎上。