Demi-Democracy in Asia
Democracy may be decaying in the West but thrives in some form in Asia
By: Michael Vatikiotis
The election of Donald Trump has reinforced fears about the death of democracy. The US is one of several established Western democracies in which far-right populists have been gaining vote share at the expense of liberals. These trends have prompted successful autocrats like Vladimir Putin in Russia to crow that a new world order i…
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