sentences:  Taiwan's decreasing prominence in the battle to win the Cold War also forced the KMT to refrain from the hard-line tactics it had used to extinguish dissent, and as a result, the government's ability to limit liberal intellectuals from the cultural sphere was severely inhibited.By the latter half of Chiang Ching-kuo's rule, the state shifted to a more positive role in facilitating cultural life.Taiwan's economic development pushed Taiwan into the global market and American-Taiwanese cooperation shifted from a political to an economic partnership.