<P> Also, the anti-communist atmosphere in the West in response to the Korean War contributed to the unwillingness to diplomatically recognize the People's Republic of China until the 1970s . In that time, the Republic of China (ROC) was recognized by the U.S. as' the' legitimate Chinese government, and that in turn allowed Taiwan to develop politically, militarily, and economically . The result has been that, today, any effort by the PRC to invade the island, or otherwise coerce the people there into an arrangement of political unity with the Communist controlled mainland, would be difficult at best to accomplish, and may be impossible without a great deal of bloodshed . While economic ties between the PRC and ROC have grown immensely since the 1990s, thus achieving a degree of interdependency that would have been unimaginable even twenty years ago; political diplomacy between the ROC and mainland China remains strained, and successive governments in Taiwan have consistently, if sometimes obliquely, signaled their determination to remain independent for the foreseeable future . </P> <P> Nevertheless, the defectors arrived in Taiwan on January 23, 1954, and were immediately celebrated as "Anti-Communist volunteers". The ROC government soon declared January 23 as World Freedom Day in their honor . </P> <P> The war was a political disaster for the Soviet Union . Its central objective, the unification of the Korean peninsula under the Kim Il - Sung regime, was not achieved . Boundaries of both parts of Korea remained practically unchanged . Furthermore, relations with communist ally China were seriously and permanently spoiled, leading to the Sino - Soviet split that lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 . </P> <P> The United States' strong resistance to the invasion may have prevented a Soviet intervention in Yugoslavia during the Tito - Stalin split . The war, meanwhile, united the countries within the capitalist bloc: the Korean War accelerated the conclusion of a peace agreement between the U.S. and Japan, the warming of West Germany's relations with other western countries, creation of military and political blocs ANZUS (1951) and SEATO (1954). However, because of the war, the authority of the Soviet State grew, which showed in its readiness to interfere in developing countries of the Third World, many of which after the Korean war went down the socialist path of development, after selecting the Soviet Union as their patron . </P>

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