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Reviewing the latest developments of talent policy and international aid,
two opposite but interrelated rationales can be revealed. For most of the East

Asian countries, attracting and retaining non-local high-end workforce become
an inevitable task to maintain national competitiveness at the international level.
On the other hand, with the better development over the decades, these emerging
donors such as Korea, Taiwan, China, Malaysia and Thailand seemingly have to

shoulder greater international responsibility in eradicating global inequality in
terms of wealth, living standards and environmental protection. It is against such
wider context that two contradictory policy discourses with respect to talent policy
and international aid take place at the domestic level in this region.

Ⅴ.Ⅰ National economic liberation: Talent policy

Obviously, the talent policy in East Asia is largely driven by the greater
globalization and neo-liberalism (Mok, 2017). In essence, these reviewed initiatives
are economic liberation. According to this broader notion, the macro designs of
central policies are driven by the deregulation, privatization and greater emphases

on the free market. In order to raise and elevate the national competitiveness,
these East Asian countries regard foreign talent as valuable asset without national
borders. As Brown & Tannock (2009) has argued, ‘global war for talent represents

a new phase in neoliberalism, as it seeks to liberalize the global movement not
just of capital and commodities, but of high skill labour as well’ (p.377). In other
words, in the eyes of East Asian countries, talent and high-end labor are deemed
as strategic resources that are highly required if they want to re-modernize these
mature economies. Particularly, as the advancement of greater global competition,

acquiring and utilizing the valuable human resources/capital to catch up with
Western or European counterparts seems to become inevitable moves.

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