Asian Think Tanks Meet

December 3, 2004 9:13 AM by Jon Basil Utley

Today Southeast Asia is proof of libertarian concepts that trade and free markets can bring about political stability, international cooperation and, eventually, civil liberties.  Also their democratic evolution followed the Anglo Saxon model of direct representation instead of proportional representation (whereby parliaments are selected from Party Lists, used all over Latin America and in most of East Europe).  China is “behind” politically, but so dynamic that political takes second place.  Few would trade its prosperity for more political freedoms.

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