Don't be offended . . . . .it's my situation too perhaps.
I think I was born in the wrong part of the world. That must be it.
Most people in the region are either a coward, a corrupt, or a fool.
Now they can be a cowardice religious/ corrupt religious /foolish religious or either corrupt politician / foolish politician / cowardice politician or cowardice nobody / corrupt nobody / foolish nobody. China and her ways will be embraced with wide open hearts naturally by most SEA countries. And most of them are ready for dictatorship despite the claim. The society just doesn't understand **** about rights and democracy both the elites and the most of common people. And what rule of law?
Human and civil and individual rights and democracy are still largely western values largely not internalized nor appreciated by most Asians whose ancestors were used to kow towing(kneeling and bowing) to some emperor [SIGH]. To put it bluntly Asians are largely less civilized . . . .(I can't be racist for saying that because I too am Asian)