Youtube video: China has no problem, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister refuted BBC Moderator
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新加坡副總理尚達曼駁斥BBC主持人：中國沒有問題！！不是只有新聞自由！生活的安全自由安定更重要！！
China has no problem! it was not just news freedom! That ensures the safety and stable of people's lives free is more important!
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maybe a fairer comparison is to look at
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India compared to other large complex
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societies and China is a good example
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India has the great advantage of a
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democracy which ultimately I think is
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the most sustainable political system
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that we know of but it doesn't have the
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advantage of accountability of elected
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representatives China in a curiously
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despite not having a democracy in the
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political sense has a very high sense of
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accountability on the part of his
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leaders that isn't so for all
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authoritarianism but it is so for China
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and they have created a culture of
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accountability I think India can
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critical I'm slightly baffled I I think
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India can you can come back to that if
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you want to well a lot of time I think I
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think India can create that culture
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there's no reason why democracy should
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not have a culture of accountability
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with it it just means that middle-class
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voters especially have to hold people
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accountable for what they promised and
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to see if they deliver and it can be
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done all right well we're going to talk
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more about China and accountability over
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coffee but we can't hear now the the
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authoritarianism that underpins that
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approach to managing a society feels
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uncomfortable to us yeah we are a
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parliamentary democracy not in exactly
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the same mold as Britain or the United
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States certainly now our parliamentary
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democracy and an elected government
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makes decisions which it yields are the
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best in the best interests of the
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country to be and for the future and we
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are comfortable for it yeah I mean it's
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a democracy of sorts you you don't have
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a genuinely free truly liberated prayer
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not in the British sense no well anytime
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you know but in these maladies I'd like
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to take credit for the Noda of a free
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press is a redish idea I didn't mean it
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entirely as a compliment but I what as a
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the freest possible media is not the
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only Liberty we aspire to i I do think
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it's a good idea by the way it appeals
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to my ideals but it's not the only
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Liberty you aspire to you do aspire to a
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Liberty of being able to walk the
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streets freely particularly ever eager
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you're a woman or a child at any time of
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the night you aspire to the Liberty or
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living in a city that's not defined by
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its most disorderly elements you aspire
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to the liberty of having an opportunity
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for an education and a job regardless of
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your race or your social background and
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you aspire to Liberty or practicing your
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own religion without fear of bigotry or
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discrimination those are very important
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liberties in many societies you know and
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they're lacking in many society well I
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don't want to be very important lessons
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of the last 50 years is that traditional
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concepts of welfare and social
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expenditure and government intervention
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have led to a weakening or private
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initiative and personal responsibility
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you mean your butt will be more ruthless
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is that what you're saying oh we are we
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are we are achieving a paradox of active
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government support for personal
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responsibility rather than active
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government support to take over personal
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responsibility or community
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you mean the education of a safety net
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if you provide help for someone who's
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willing to study in education to study
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hard if you provide help someone who's
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willing to take up a job and work at it
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and make life not so easy if you stay
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out of work if you provide help for
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someone wants to own a home and we're
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very generous in our grants for home
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ownership which is why we have 90
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percent home ownership and amongst the
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low income population more than 80
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percent owned their homes it conforms
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