>>214777219
That's because we poured 120 Billion US dollars in free gibs to South Korea and Taiwan; whereas we left the Philippines to rot, despite South Korea and Taiwan being enemies in WW2, because we were afraid they would go Commie.
During the Cold War between the Capitalist United States and Communist Soviet Union, in Asia, despite being devastated by World War 2, defending US interests, and being a former colony, the Philippines, received negligible financial assistance from the United States with only $5 Billion US Dollars worth of aid in totality since Independence[18] compared to the copious amount of free development aid given to other Asian allies like: Israel ($317.9 Billion US Dollars in free aid),[19] South Korea ($119.9 Billion US dollars in free aid)[20][21] South Vietnam ($104 Billion Dollars in free aid),[19] Taiwan, ($41.81015 Billion US Dollars in free aid by year 1975[22] which convert to $242 Billion US Dollars in 2024 values as adjusted for inflation)[23] and Japan,[24][25] as the United States considered their economic development more important than that of the Philippines because they had hostile Pro-Soviet Union neighbors which the United States were opposed to.[26] Furthermore, America applied a deindustrialization policy and supported Free Market reforms in the Philippines, assigning it a role of only "supplying raw materials" while being open to foreign imports, because Japan was designated to be the main industrial export power in Asia,[25] thus retarding Industrialization efforts in the Philippines while the other nations that were protectionist and had Industrial Policy surged ahead in development.[27]:42,43[28]
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