My vote goes to the Phillipines, they have a government sanctioned ‘you can kill any drug user with impunity’ law and are currently waging active war against communists inside there own borders.
they have a government sanctioned ‘you can kill any drug user with impunity’ law
If nothing else, I can understand why the government and society moved in this (entirely incorrect) direction. There are also plenty of countries waging active war against domestic communists as well… India and Peru come to mind for starters. If anything, while Duterte was a seriously mixed bag, at least he seemed willing to chart a different course for the country outside of being the US’ lackey.
Unless we’re including west Asia- in which case the obvious answer is Israel- I think it’s the Philippines though, agreed. Between Spanish, and then even worse (and certainly more mentally corrupting in the Philippines’ case) American imperialism, perhaps they didn’t stand a chance. The mental colonization seems to be the worst in all of Asia, and that they brought their former US-backed dictator’s son into power is a perfect example of it. It’s not like Marcos can be considered to have done anything for his country even- I can understand, if not at all agree with Japanese ultranationalism for instance- but all that family stands for is throwing the country into tens of billions of dollars of debt, all sorts of atrocities and deprivation while being the US’ lackey, and fleeing with billions to Hawaii.
I get along well with Filipinos, but the culture and prevailing mentality seems to be so colonized, it would make Japanese, south (occupied) Koreans, and even many rogue Taiwanese blush.
I can understand, if not at all agree with Japanese ultranationalism
By what measure, as I should repeat, there’s a difference between national liberation and ultra-nationalism… one is for sovereignty and unity and one is for hierarchy and otherization, if not expansion… (left and right nationalism)
And it seems Japan heads for the latter more further to the right…
To augment your comment, comrade,
Luna Oi has a great video (link below) explaining the difference between right wing and left wing nationalism.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This isn’t nearly as extreme but I also heard that they are feuding with China right now about sea jurisdiction, or something like that.
Brunei and Singapore exist and they are both pretty fucked up, but the most reactionary government in Asia is the usa with all its military bases
What’s wrong about Brunei? Idk about it…
You’ll want to look that one up, it’ll become pretty evident pretty quickly.
Brunei has been led by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah since 1967. The country’s wealth derives from its extensive petroleum and natural gas fields. Economic growth during the 1990s and 2000s has transformed Brunei into an industrialised country, with the GDP increasing 56% between 1999 and 2008. Brunei has the second-highest Human Development Index among Southeast Asian states, trailing only Singapore.
During the 19th century, the Bruneian Empire began to decline. The Sultanate ceded Sarawak (Kuching) to James Brooke and installed him as the White Rajah, and it ceded Sabah to the British North Borneo Chartered Company. In 1888, Brunei became a British protectorate and was assigned a British resident as colonial manager in 1906. After the Japanese occupation during World War II, a new constitution was written in 1959. In 1962, a small armed rebellion against the monarchy was ended with British assistance. The country gained its full independence from Britain on 1 January 1984.
So, it’s like another UAE… another British-aligned South-east Asian petroleum monarchy that crushed a progressive rebellion…
My initial response is ROK but it’s probably not worth splitting hairs on.
Am in complete agreement with you comrade in particular about the splitting hair thing, I think that there is a threshold of how reactonary a country is that should make us weary of it but much more important than measuring it it should be understanding why it is so.
If we’re talking about all of Asia and not just east/southeast/south Asia, then definitely Isn’trael.
not a country
most reactionary colonial project
Isn’t Myanmar a legitimate fascistic junta right now with an active genocide against an ethnic minority?
That would be Indonesia
I think Indonesia has an anti inperialist socdem government so I don’t think it’s that bad there
literally doing a genocide in indonesian occupied Papua as we speak right now.
I thought that was a minor rebel insurgency, a la Philippines, not a fucking ethnic cleansing…
It is not quite fair to Japan because they do have strong pacifist history and somewhat functional communist party (amongst industrialized nations). Personally amongst countries I’ve visited, I think India is really fucked up with the literal class division among people, income inequality, Hindutva ideology, and a government that ignores its daily embarrassing domestic scandals while saber rattling against all of its neighbors.
Indonesia is also kinda fucked up despite its strong history of anti-colonialism, I guess this is what happened when you have a US-backed literal genocide of the members of once the largest communist party in Asia (literally, the Jakarta method), so there is literally no leftist remaining. Now a military general who committed that genocide is set to be the next President. But at least being a majority and most-populous Muslim country, Indonesia is incredibly pro-Palestine, there’s that.
Apparently Mongolia has a serious issue with militant Nazi gangs, though they don’t have much control over the government thankfully
