Too often, says Paul Kocourek, a Booz Allen senior vice president, the concept isn't workable.

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To Sean Trende, the senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics, the concept doesn't violate democratic principles, but he called it a bad idea.

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Nor do Asia's intellectuals and politicians come close to unanimity about the notion of Asian values propagated by the concept's leading promoters, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's senior minister, and Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister of Malaysia.

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