With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient." in the context of "Lee Kuan Yew in speech "Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities", Tokyo (10 November 1992)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.