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Originally Posted by elphenor
his greater legacy is in the restructuring of China, I don't think it's a given that China's modernization would be similar without him, or that they'd have the same place in the world
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Why not? The Republic loyalists that fled to Taiwan turned it into an economic powerhouse with a high quality of life that was only eventually eclipsed by the mainland due to its tiny size and population. In the end, I think Sun Yat Sen's ideas and legacy were more pivotal in modernizing China, even if the Republic he led technically didn't survive. To this day, even the die hard Marxists have tremendous respect for him and his influence, maybe even more so than Mao.