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I can only see the US insistence on many bad foreign decisions in the name of democracy done in the Middle East by multiple administrations, that without much knowledge of the situation in East Asia, I venture to guess it is not a coincidence that US allies turned into democracies

I also am not sure about Indonesia as an example of a US ally, I don't think it is similar to the other two

Effectively both SK and Taiwan were completely dependent on US for defense, I doubt this had no bearing