[lbo-talk] Civil Rights in South Asia

[Chris Doss]

China also has a PPP-adjusted per capita income about twice that of India, or it did the last time I looked, which for 95% of the population is a lot more important than civil liberties -- and is actually more important for most of the remaining 5% except in rhetoric.

On the other hand -- China has a flourishing digital commons?

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From: "dredmond at efn.org" <dredmond at efn.org>

Well, many Beijingers have more economic security and state-guaranteed
benefits (access to health care, education) than their comparable peers in
New Delhi. On the other hand, certain formal rights of political
organization and mainstream media expression are more developed in India,
though China has been quietly democratizing from within -- e.g. there's a
flourishing digital commons and plenty of spaces of dissent and
discussion. And Singapore isn't some totalitarian dungeon, it's a First
World service economy with reasonably free and fair elections.

-- DRR

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