With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Taiwan is democratic.
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.
In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.
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