[My answer]
Dayang Oil Depot
In 1950, Sino-US Joint Defense Treaty was signed between Taiwan and United States. According to the treaty, the original Gongguan Airport was expanded, and “Ching Chuan Kang” Airport became the largest air base in the Far East at the time. In 1962, Vietnam War broke out. To respond to the demands for the war with North Vietnam, the US armed forces used Ching Chuan Kang Airport as a logistic base.
[My partner's answer]
1.During the Cold War, the United States directed the Latin American ambassadors and instructed them on the nature of the Soviet threat (communism).
2. Overtime Latin American leaders felt that they were abused by United States by pressuring them on matters concerning their interests, while ignoring the concerns from their own countries (lowering of tariffs and fair prices for their exports, assistance with economic development).
3. In general Latin American leaders believed that they were loyal/allies of the United States (providing raw materials at below-market prices to support the Allies' war effort) but once the conflict was over these efforts were not “repaid” by USA. Latin America was not considered in the Plan Marshal (post war subsidies and aids).
4. Ecuador's main foreign policy concern in the postwar period was Peru, not the Soviet Union. Peru had attacked Ecuador and the number one objective of Ecuador's foreign policy was to make sure that that this would not happen again. Ecuador was looking for American weapons and wanted the United States to use its influence to control Peru.
5. US military aid to Ecuador was harmful. The warships that the United States sold to Latin America were too outdated, not to mention expensive, they were used solely to threaten neighbors. On the other hand, the United States also provided generous military aid to Peru, Ecuador's archenemy. American policies led to an arms race between Ecuador and Peru that had a peaceful outcome (Treaty of Brasillia) only at the end of the 1990s.
6. Ecuadorian leaders (leaders of the radical right) learned that any act of political repression could be easily excused by labeling the victims as “communists”. The United States induced Ecuadorian leaders to interpret each march for social justice, (protest of the hungry and dispossessed), as part of a plan for world communist domination. The United States actively supported the military dictatorship that came to power in 1963 in Ecuador (military leaders in the government).
7. Ecuador become dependent on the Unites States during the Cold War. During this period, the United States achieved its objectives in Ecuador: the prohibition of progressive political parties, the persecution of leftist unions, the firing, imprisonment, beatings, exile and murder of independent intellectuals, professors and journalists, as well as the weakening of governments thats did not sympathize with their ideas, under the excuse of fighting against the communism. The later influenced the democratic development of Ecuador and the politic instability of the country (Pineo, 2010).
8. In Colombia, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) was formed as a force to promote the anti-imperialism and as a response to anti-communist and social reprisals. (González Cepeda, 2017). “La guerrilla” an insurgent paramilitary group that has been involved in kidnapping, murders, extortion, providing illegal drugs.
She believe that the anti-communist obsession brought buy USA during the Cold War led to the development of groups, initially formed in order to fight against the dictatorships of the governments leading some Latin American countries, that subsequently turn into extremist. Ultimately, these types of groups/organizations and their illegal activities lead to the flourishing of criminal gangs that even today threaten citizen security in Ecuador and Latin America in general.
[reflection]
After the discussion with my partner. Originally, I reckon that one of the cold war legacies you find most powerful in your country is that you must choose a concrete item, like a famous building. But after hearing my partner's ideas, I realize it can be an ideology or a kind of air which deeply affet people's belief. Actually, we didn't truely participated in cold war. In that time, Taiwanese people just assist America military some articles to exchange their protection. So, when I realize other countries' history correlative cold war, I know that how the war affected their life.