While capacity stagnation was the characteristic of nuclear power develop­ment in most world regions, this cannot be said about Asia (see Fig. 15.4). The surplus capacity situation did not exist really in the fast-growing industrialized countries with limited domestic energy resources (Japan or Republic of Korea) or in the even faster-growing populous developing countries of China and India. Here energy security remained a high priority policy item and, in the cases of China and India, fuelling their economic development aspirations called for the development of all supply options. Moreover, electricity market liberalization was less pronounced in these countries than in North America or Europe and government involvement in energy system investment decisions (and finance) continued.