Power of Asia: democracy or prosperity?
What is the most favourable model for socio-economic development, Chinese, Singaporean, Indonesian, Indian? A panel of guests from Asia talk about their vision for the region and where it's heading.
As part of the Power of Asia season across the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's international news services - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service staged a panel discussion at the London Stock Exchange Theatre on Wednesday 29 June 2011.
The panel covered the reasons behind the rise of regional economies and asked whether democracy was necessary for economic development.
The agenda for the discussion was put together by some of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's multilingual services including, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Burmese, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Chinese, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Hindi, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Indonesia and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Vietnamese.
The debate was chaired by Britt Yip of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Chinese and Hoang Nguyen of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Vietnamese.
The panel included:
Professor Athar Hussain, Director of the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Professor Shaojia Liu, Economics and Finance, Brunel University
Dr Intan Syah Ichsan, University of Exeter
Martina Nguyen, Historian of Southeast Asia, University of California, Berkeley
Van Biak Thang, Assistant Editor of internet-based news agency, Chinland Guardian
You can listen to a shorter version of the debate or watch the debate in full via the four clips below.
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