You’re just making shit up now. Well, you were before as well, but you’re also doing it now.

China and Vietnam are both democracies. Even if they did not have elections, which they do, they would not be dictatorships, since power is not consolidated with one individual. The executive in China is in fact far less powerful than the executive in the US, for example. I don’t know much about the political institutions of the rest of SEA, but I doubt you do either.

I would love to live in China. Would be nice to experience competent governance and institutions that actually exist to serve the people.