Dear Democracy, We Need More Than “Rights”

Why are most Asian societies having a hard time justifying liberalism?

Wei Xiang
The Apeiron Blog
Published in
7 min readMar 24, 2021

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In the past few decades, many Asian societies are fighting their own government against allegedly tyranny and suppression against individual liberty. Most involve the fight for a version of the First Amendment. Most demanded some form of freedom of speech and expression.

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