By: afiq aziz

afiq aziz — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:40:41 +0000

Total democracy in asia are totally incompatible. There must be a reason why Japan, Singapore, South Korea are authoritarian( though they only democracy to a certain degree) didn’t adopted western style democracy system. This is because it takes the west hundreds of years to transition from authoritarian government to democracies. You cant expect dictatorship country like Myanmar to change their system to democracy in 10 years. The people there are poor and uneducated and as people may know, uneducated people tends to be more uncivilized and extreme. Look at what happens in rohingya once the government becomes more relax. Even India the biggest democratic country in the world fails to shine against China despite India adopting democratic system compared to China authoritarian. Ive read about China in the early 20th century which under miss dowager cixi, she tries to experiment with democracy. The outcome was ugly, every party was bickering with each other without finding solutions on how to solve problem. All they did was playing the blame game. This also leads to the civil war in China resulted in the win of communism. Japan was smarter in which they created a system of controlled democracy. In the end look at what Japan had achieved. It is thorugh these system also that south korea, Singapore, Taiwan, etc could have reached economic success. Dictatorship is never a choice, but total democracy also is not the best choice for Asians. Even this days, some western scholars have started changing their views. Some have said that India needs to be more like China in order to achieve stable growth. And this also should be applicable to ASEAN.

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By: afiq aziz