The Asian scholar who, like Aristotle, supported the ethical concept of the Golden Mean as applied in communication was

The Asian thinker who, like Aristotle, upheld the ethical idea of the Golden Mean in communication was Confucius.

His doctrine of the mean, the zhongyong, prizes balance, moderation and avoidance of extremes in speech and conduct.

This closely parallels Aristotle's Golden Mean, where virtue lies between the vices of excess and deficiency.

Ananda Coomaraswamy was an art historian and philosopher of Indian aesthetics, not the author of a doctrine of the mean.

Patanjali is associated with the Yoga Sutras and grammar, and did not frame a Golden Mean ethic of communication.

Dao Tsu, linked to Taoist thought on natural spontaneity, does not represent the moderation-based Golden Mean either.