The Republic of China, based on the island of Taiwan, benefited from
a. financial aid from the mainland's People's Republic of China.
b. the decision to establish large government owned and run agricultural plantations which would be more efficient than private farms.
c. a military security treaty with Japan.
d. a modern economic infrastructure, the result of fifty years of Japanese rule.
e. Chiang Kai-shek's immediate implementation of political democracy in 1949.
d
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