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>TW/SKR/JP Was authoritarianism >VNM/PRC/SIN Is authoritarian The TLDR is competent dictatorship and normalization (really cooperation) with hegemon (US) ma
by maxglute 2y ago
>TW/SKR/JP
Was authoritarianism
>VNM/PRC/SIN
Is authoritarian
The TLDR is competent dictatorship and normalization (really cooperation) with hegemon (US) made rapid export led growth work. The dictator sets up the industries, the hegemon consumes the outputs. Need both, transition away from authoritarian is optional though (especially resource exporters that hegemon needs).
Democracies to my knowledge has been incapable of bootstrapping the 0-1 agrarian -> industrial development fast. I can't really think of one that didn't industrialize from exploitation/colonial phase prior to democratizing.
India hindered by being "real" democracy with universal sufferage at the outset while being very multicultural. It's... very helpful for development to culturally genocide society into relative monoculture. You want that migrant country girl from Z village to be fungible cog in factory Y, and you start that by making sure everyone can interact with language Z.