该地区第一代民选领导人，如泰国前总理他信，最后并不比利用大多数人的支持镇压反对派、抑制可用来作为变革工具的技术的民选独裁者更强。
The region’s first generation of elected leaders, like former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, often proved to be no more than elected autocrats who used their majorities to crush their opponents and suppress technologies that could be used as tools for change.