China is no easy place to manage. With 1.5 billion citizens, you'd think all they had to do is increase productivity by just an average of RM10 per capita and you make trillions including complementary products and services. Money is important in China. So is life. But they're prepared to shoot and hang people who steal, cheat, commit bribery and kill other citizens.
So did Matir take aim and shoot his own foot?
Dr Mahathir promotes China model as alternative to democracy
By Yow Hong Chieh
October 18, 2010
Dr Mahathir: If you find good people to run a country, even dictators can make a country develop and develop very well.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 18 — Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today called democracy a “failed” ideology and held up China’s model of authoritarianism as an alternative “worth studying”.
He said China’s political model — which he termed the “Beijing Consensus” — showed that a nation could develop well even in the absence of freedom, liberty and equality — ideals fundamental to the rival “Washington Consensus”.
“The Beijing Consensus shows that having a non-democratic country can also give a good life for the people,” Dr Mahathir told delegates at the “Creation of the Global Citizen: Media Liberalisation and the New Political Realities” forum organised by Umno here.
“If you find good people to run a country, even dictators can make a country develop and develop very well.”
He pointed out that China’s “correct” application of the Beijing Consensus had allowed the nation of 1.3 billion “very poor” people to become the second richest country in the world.
The former premier also criticised the very premise of democracy, arguing that no issue could achieve total consensus, leading to an electoral split that will promote poor governance.
“Democracy... has failed in many countries,” he said.
“It is not the perfect thing it is touted to be. You find that some of these democracies really cannot work. People cannot make up their minds.
Dr Mahathir cited hung parliaments in Britain and Australia as proof that countries cannot progress when a majority of its voters cannot make up their minds, saying frequent changes in leadership were not good for a nation.
“We see a lot of democracies where leaders change every two years and the country cannot make any progress at all,” he said.
“Even the countries that have made progress find sometimes that democracies hinder the development of the country, make the country unstable and difficult to develop.”
He added that smaller parties roped into ad hoc coalitions to break hung parliaments in democracies will hold the majority hostage to minority demands that were not good for the country as a whole. - The Malaysian Insider
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10 comments:
Maybe as the Malays say it - Dia sindir aje!
So give him some credit. He's saying that corrupt UMNO people should be lined up and shot or hung from that big tree in Padang Merdeka!
Let's hang him first! Hang him upside down from the Petronas Twin-Tower in heart of Kuala Lumpur!
The man is a total disgrace to Malaysian society, how on earth did he get to help the BN government for 22+ years?
Line up and shoot those who supported him for he alone could not have done so much damage without his ampu-bodeks to destroy the lives of so many whose families can't wait to pee on his grave!
You should have another pix of a desperate him - the de facto sultan of Malaysia!
["If you find good people to run a country, even dictators can make a country develop and develop very well."]
In 22 years as PM, he found ONLY one GOOD guy!
Guess who? Himself! :-))
oops, sorry above should read:
"....how on earth did he get to helm the BN government for 22+ years?"
Yah that nyanyuk! ...his own shadow perhaps?
"....how on earth did he get to helm the BN government for 22+ years? "
Helm Malaysia? He did nothing of the sort. He was not in a boat. He ruled a gangland. The transgresses he committed might drive some to hang him twice over.
He cheated when he beat Ku Li at that infamous UMNO AGM, remember. Then he made Ling Liong Sik, a Chinese, President of UMNO!
Wonder if Brahim Ali remember that? Hasn't he come out of the OT yet?
" ...his own shadow perhaps? ..."
He doesn't have a shadow. He's a shadow of what he says. He says people should be shot and hung. For a man who told the Jews to crucify themselves, he doesn't walk or talk straight. He's tripping all over his third leg at that ugly phallic sky shooting concrete pillars of the Twin Towers.
Parti Keadilan should hang him, instead of Zaid Ibrahim!
LOL!! You are too kind to ask about him. This Perkasar racist is a hated man; he is being disliked by many, Malays and NONs alike. I rolled in laughter reading some of the comments in Blogs about him....
" Any chinese patient sleeping nearby? Please pull off some tubes. That will be fine."
" Idiot Ibrahim Ali survives but the doctor have cut off his tongue after many people have insisted."
" He won't find a donor to have a kidney transplant and only mahathir will help him!"
A kin of mine went in for heart surgery and as we waited, those nearest to the patient were asked if they might object to certain medication that might have traces of "khinzir" elements.
Do you think they might have sewed him up with babi valves? ;-))
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