Asian Marshall plan?

After world war 2, east Asia was left absolutely devastated, just like in Europe. What if the US decided to send economic aid to all the countries of east as and the western pacific just like in Europe, to stop the spread in communism? OTL the Marshall Plan included allied, axis and neutral countries, so I don't see why it wouldn't here. Here are the countries I think would be included in an Asian Marshall Plan-

China
Japan
Thailand
Malaysia
Philippines
Indonesia
Burma
Korea
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
New Guinea
India

Some less likely but still remotely possible recipients are Mongolia and Australia. So, could this have actually happened? If it did, what would the effects be? Would communism be curbed in the east? How would living standards in the region be?
 
Would communism be curbed in the east?
Nope, unless the US tell france to knock it off and just accept whatever happen in vietnam(that is a internal disaster but even ho chi ming would be a nationalist pink if well influenced) as kuomitang never have legitimacy, even mao have more legitimacy, still we could see a red or 'blue'? china or a divided china or anything between, kuomitang loss for a reason. ditto division of korea.
 
Nope, unless the US tell france to knock it off and just accept whatever happen in vietnam(that is a internal disaster but even ho chi ming would be a nationalist pink if well influenced) as kuomitang never have legitimacy, even mao have more legitimacy, still we could see a red or 'blue'? china or a divided china or anything between, kuomitang loss for a reason. ditto division of korea.
there would be little reason to turn to communism if the US had some to genuinely help economic development as they did in Europe
 
there would be little reason to turn to communism if the US had some to genuinely help economic development as they did in Europe
Chinese have a lot of issues...but the CCW the last thing was economical, unless you want a mega korea war is very hard for commies to loss it.
 
Chinese have a lot of issues...but the CCW the last thing was economical, unless you want a mega korea war is very hard for commies to loss it.
What do you mean by mega korea war? Maybe here, Korea may still be divided, but more "peacefully" like how Germany was divided. As in, there wan't a war with each side of Germany trying to conquer the other.
 
The US did send aid to East Asia. It just didn't get a fancy name. Apparently according to Wikipedia, $6 billion to East Asia, and that's even though aid to China stopped after 1949.
 
What do you mean by mega korea war? Maybe here, Korea may still be divided, but more "peacefully" like how Germany was divided. As in, there wan't a war with each side of Germany trying to conquer the other.
I'm refering the chinese civil war, the only way the KMT ended with something not a ridiculous is USA sending as much as troops they can..that is a mega korea war in the making
 
The US did send aid to East Asia. It just didn't get a fancy name. Apparently according to Wikipedia, $6 billion to East Asia, and that's even though aid to China stopped after 1949.
yeah that happened even some lawmakers protested the help to japan
 
If the KMT control China or even a Southern one, the US will send aid. There was a plan to do so. A KMT China and occupied Japan will serve as a joint pendant for US investments
 
which countries? Only China, or more?

"From the end of the war to the end of 1953, the US provided grants and credits amounting to $5.9 billion to Asian countries, especially China/Taiwan ($1.051 billion), India ($255 million), Indonesia ($215 million), Japan ($2.44 billion), South Korea ($894 million), Pakistan ($98 million) and the Philippines ($803 million). In addition, another $282 million went to Israel and $196 million to the rest of the Middle East.[123] All this aid was separate from the Marshall Plan.[124]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

"Our story now moves to Asia and the southwestern Pacific, where, concurrent with the European Recovery Program, American aid was extended to China and Korea, to the Philippines, Indonesia, Indochina, Thailand, and Burma, and, through an emergency wheat loan, to India. Unlike the European Recovery Program, aid to Asia between 1948 and 1952 did not develop as a unified undertaking in behalf of a whole group of countries at once. It began with an authorization of aid to China, under the legislation which launched the Marshall Plan. Then, as of January 1, 1949, the President transferred from the Department of the Army to the ECA the responsibility of administering economic assistance to Korea; nearly 90 million dollars in unexpended GARIOA [Government and Relief in Occupied Areas] funds were turned over to ECA for this purpose. By 1950 continental China had fallen largely under Communist sway and the Foreign Economic Assistance Act of that year, approved June 5, authorized the use of residual China aid funds totaling more than 100 million dollars for economic assistance 'in the general area of China.' Under this authority, ptograms were initiated in the countries of southeast Asia and, in April 1951, the Philippines.." Harry Bayard Price, The Marshall Plan and its Meaning (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1955), pp. 179-180

It should not be a surprise that the very legislation that authorized the Marshall Plan also authorized aid to China. The 80th Congress (which approved the Marshall Plan in 1948) was after all a Republican Congress, and conservative Republicans were highly interested in saving Chiang Kai-shek from defeat by the Chinese Communists. So including aid to China was necessary or at least helpful to assure passage of the bill.
 
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Unlike the European Recovery Program, aid to Asia between 1948 and 1952 did not develop as a unified undertaking in behalf of a whole group of countries at once.
This is an important detail. Could the US have done the asian aid program in a more united marshall-esque fashion? If so, would it have changed anything?
 
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