[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The great problem here is that he seems to hold up Russia, China (among a few others) as "stars," perhaps as models. Russia, of course, is a gigantic kleptocracy. It only values "Christianity" in terms of pure label. Its leaders denounce American immortality and materialism while the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church wears 5,000 dollar watches, or chumps of the regime and Putin himself engage in massive theft and corruption. They call us supporters of homosexuals, and, yet, Russian soldiers are routinely raped as a part of their hazing by superior officers and even blackmailed into prostitution, if not slavery (they also sell active duty soldiers to modern day slavers in Russia). And this is only the tip of the iceberg. The horror that is Russia, its filth and corruption, only gets worse and worse.

If he is looking to Russia as a "star" and, perhaps, a model, then the form of government Orban is looking for is just a Russian style tyranny. China, also, is a repressive, anti-Christian joke of a country that keeps its GDP up by building massive ghost cities.

I don't know anything about Singapore, Turkey or India though, except, in the latter case, they like to dump dead bodies into the river to float around (where they also shower in).

[annalex]

Yes, I agree with you about Russia. I understand that Orban was making the point about economic growth, so China earned its right to be on his list. Russia, however, is an economic bubble based on artificially high oil prices, ready to collapse.

But I can defend Orban’s larger point: that the liberal democratic model of economy has stopped producing growth, at least stopped producing it domestically, and that economic nationalism is necessary for the economic salvation of all national economies.