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Is Authoritarianism the New Normal for Asia?

In this article for Newsweek, I caution against the decline of democracy in Asia since the COVID-19 pandemic and the War in Ukraine.

Le Dong Hai Nguyen by Le Dong Hai Nguyen
May 14, 2022
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Democracy is under heavy assault throughout Asia. In the latest 2022Freedom in the Worldreport released by Freedom House, the continent is home to the three biggest drops in this year’s global freedom index.

Compared to the previous year, junta-ruled Myanmar experienced a depressing 19-point plunge on the report’s 100-point scale. This is the largest annual declinesince 2014, when neighboring Thailand tanked 21-point after—you guessed it—a military coup. Right behind this depressing accolade is a decline of 17 points for Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, followed by a 9-point drop for Hong Kong, whose few remaining traces of democracy was fully “dismantled” by China’s renewed crackdown on dissent…

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