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Authored by Bilahari Kausikan

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"The key issue is not the difference between 'Asian' and 'Western' values, let alone the superiority or inferiority of any one set of values to another. It is not even what is distinctively or characteristically Asian about any particular set of values. Today's 'Asian values' debate is basically about Asian societies' future direction and development ... the question now being asked... is how to sustain development over the long term, bearing in mind the pitfalls and dead ends that have confronted many more developed (mainly Western) societies ... In debating 'Asian values,' they are examining such issues as the responsibilities of individuals to society as a whole, the role of family, the integrity of public institutions, and the maintenance of law and order - issues that are also widely debated in the West. Whatever the debate over 'Asian values' may be, then, it is not a clash of civilisations ... The real debate is... about which values, in what degree and in what proportions, are necessary for sustained development, the maintenance of social cohesion, and the avoidance of serious problems... The appropriate balance between different sets of values - between individual rights that guarantee personal freedom, and social issues that stem from the society's needs for stability and discipline - depends on the particular circumstances of each society. The balance in each country will therefore shift over time, and not only in one direction."[1][2]

[E]fforts to promote human rights in Asia must also reckon with the altered distribution of power in the post-Cold War world... Western leverage over East and Southeast Asia has been greatly reduced...

For the first time since the Universal Declaration [on Human Rights] was adopted in 1948, countries not thoroughly steeped in Judeo-Christian and natural law traditions are in the first rank: That unprecedented situation will define the new international politics of human rights. It will also multiply the occasions for conflict...

The self-congratulatory, simplistic and sanctimonious tone of much Western commentary at the end of the Cold War and the current triumphalism of Western values grate on East and Southeast Asians.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Law and Values in Governance: The Singapore Way, 30 Hong Kong Law Journal 2000". heinonline.org. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  2. ^ Kausikan, Bilahari. "The ‘Asian values’ debate: A view from Singapore." Democracy in East Asia 17 (1998): 20.
  3. ^ Johnson, Scott (1994). Deng, Francis (ed.). "A Challenge for the International Community". Journal of International Affairs. 47 (2): 607.
  4. ^ Bilahari Kausikan, "Asia's Different Standard," Foreign Policy (Fall 1993) pp. 28-34, quoted in Samuel P. Huntington, "If Not Civilization, What?" Foreign Affairs (November-December 1993) p. 19

Criticism of Kong Hee

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This guy has been crazy criticising Kong Hee a Christian pastor, and something should be written here about that... yes, this is in conjunction to what has already him being the "undiplomatic diplomat".... 2001:8003:6A23:2C00:D0:F862:ABBB:2FE8 (talk) 13:11, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]