It's sad to see such a history blind piece. Asian people have long accepted a strong state apparatus. The idea that this is something new for Asian people is pu

It's sad to see such a history blind piece. Asian people have long accepted a strong state apparatus. The idea that this is something new for Asian people is pure propaganda. The current governments of Japan, Korea, China, &c were preceded by governments ultimately rooted in the Qin bureaucracy of 2200 years ago, which many scholars will argue is the first bureaucratic, impersonal state. A strong state apparatus without accountability or a principle of transcendent law -- that is a far "bigger" government than any in Asia currently. Really, people in Asia are still getting used to a smaller government.