I wasn't lumping China with east asia intentionally, it slipped my mind for a second the China = CCP.
Actually our democracies aren't perfect you're right, democracy with strong elements of oligarchy and aristocracy is what it truly is. What I'm trying to say is nobody is to blame other than normal people like you and me because we apparently it seems always vote while looking at the short term picture instead of the larger one.
I can't stress this enough the only hurdle between development and the sub continent is none other than education. We have honest, hard working people but we lack education to harness the good qualities of our public effectively.
Take any problem the sub continent faces and eventually you'll find that the root cause of the issue is a lack of education.