Why does Asia hate (progressives) and Women Leaders so Much?
The lingering question is triggered by the current state of leadership across South East Asia and some areas belonging to Asia Pacific region. Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters are illegally detained by the Burmese military junta. Leni Robredo, the opposition leader of the Philippine Republic “was bested” by a convicted criminal dictator’s son, Ferdinand E. Marcos’ son in the recently concluded Philippine national election last May. China’s head of state, Xi Jin Ping continues to antagonize the Taiwanese president Her Excellency Tsai Ing-wen over sovereignty and territorial disputes.
What seems to be a struggle between democracy and communism is an obscure battle between economic policies, in reality. Capitalism is finally collapsing and failing as an economic system. The information age deemed capitalism as an inefficient economic system. This was exposed by the recent crisis the world has been facing since the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic.
The main doctrine of capitalism is personal ownership of “means of production”, and the state has little influence on the regulating the laws that govern the production of companies under capitalism. The global north has adapted a better approach to address the crises that capitalism bring to global sociopolitical, economic and environmental areas of concern. The paradigm shift is felt when the unprecedented amount of problems that the pandemic has caused was not addressed efficiently even by the world’s superpowers like the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump.
The continuing chokehold of strongman rule all across Asian governments as influenced by world superpowers like Russia and China has been detrimental for almost every nation state or government these two heads of states has been tyrannizing ever since these two megalomaniacs established their control over global natural resources and cash economy. These two despots did what every dictator like Adolf Hitler did to establish fascism in 20th century Germany. First, they established a wide net of misinformation and propaganda and called dibs, connived and collaborated with the worst of Asian politics across SEA and some parts of Asia Pacific. Along with the distortion of reality, they entered this never-ending propaganda of democracy vs communism, a common theme in the sociopolitical debates.
WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY
The 21st century or the second millennium was met with the rapid growth of information technology, thrusting the world into a rapid cycle towards the information age.
The industrial age is over since Tim Berner Lee’s invention has influenced the way that information is being communicated across the globe. The industrial age’s main currency is cash. But in our interesting times, the currency is not measured in gold or cash. INFORMATION IS THE NEW CURRENCY IN THE INFORMATION AGE. (To be continued)