The correct answer to the question that is being presented above would be letter c. free and fair elections. <span>All of the following are characteristics of authoritarian governments in East Asia, except free and fair elections because they are not allowed to say anything against the authorities.</span>
Actually, we don't need to know specifically about East Asia to answer this question: the answer to this question would be general to all kinds of authoritarian regimes, no matter the region: Authoritiarian regimes don't have free and fair elections (c), since those could remove the regime.
