Comments on: A battle with the junta https://www.policyforum.net/battle-with-the-junta/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Wed, 27 Feb 2019 07:27:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Godfree Roberts https://www.policyforum.net/battle-with-the-junta/#comment-12176 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 07:27:40 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=30838#comment-12176 Prayuth’s government has performance legitimacy: it is the best government Thailand has had in decades and has done a great deal to keep the country independent and prosperous.

That’s why it has the support of 80% of Thais.

Western ‘democracy’ is utterly unsuited to a developing country and none has succeeded by employing it.

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