Review 10: Singapore's Authoritarian Capitalism Asian Values, Free Market Illusions and Political Dependency, by Christopher Lingle (1996)
Reviewed by:
Nick Cater,
Tasmania Mercury, February 10, 1996
"Dr. Lingle argues Asian values are divisive, separating Asian from non-Asian countries in a new cold-war which could eventually stifle the economic growth of the region. Before the collapse of communism, East Asian governments used the threat of the red peril to hound their domestic opponents as agents of international socialism. Now the Asian values argument allows them to brandish the threat of the white peril in which its opponents are portrayed as members of a new, insidious international conspiracy of liberal democracy."
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