What will be interesting over the coming 20-40 years is how China deals with its population collapse. Their expansionist hegemony combined with re-education is clearly an attempt to offset as much of this as possible through acquisition, much like a company with stalled growth buys up fast-growing companies to accrete earnings growth. If the Western nations can thwart that, or at least slow it down, through countering OBOR and maintaining Western values in the face of Marxist/Leninist wokism, the future does not necessarily belong to the Asian powers.
The future belongs to those who are able to see the world in strategic terms that transcend the East vs. West false binaries. The greatest progress is going to come from the cooperation among East and West powers, based on mutual development and win-win thinking. Contrary to Western narratives, the China win-win Belt and Road approach is not an East/West opposition as defined by the imperial geopoliticians.
To quote from a recent piece:
The annoying fact which such thinkers as Huntington and his followers choose to ignore is that the greatest renaissances and rates of progress recorded in the human experience never occurred by distinct cultural groups simply transforming themselves at random, or doing what ones’ ancestors did, but rather all periods of progress were shaped by the cross pollinating of the best ideas of various cultures, never just replacing one set of ideas FOR another, or adding one set of ideas TO another, but rather creating new wholes that are more than the sum of their parts and containing ever greater degrees of power to creatively discover and communicate truths of those universal principles guiding mankind and nature. This is the proper definition and purpose of “science” and “art” and their effects as technological progress as expressed across ALL cultures.”
What will be interesting over the coming 20-40 years is how China deals with its population collapse. Their expansionist hegemony combined with re-education is clearly an attempt to offset as much of this as possible through acquisition, much like a company with stalled growth buys up fast-growing companies to accrete earnings growth. If the Western nations can thwart that, or at least slow it down, through countering OBOR and maintaining Western values in the face of Marxist/Leninist wokism, the future does not necessarily belong to the Asian powers.
The future belongs to those who are able to see the world in strategic terms that transcend the East vs. West false binaries. The greatest progress is going to come from the cooperation among East and West powers, based on mutual development and win-win thinking. Contrary to Western narratives, the China win-win Belt and Road approach is not an East/West opposition as defined by the imperial geopoliticians.
To quote from a recent piece:
The annoying fact which such thinkers as Huntington and his followers choose to ignore is that the greatest renaissances and rates of progress recorded in the human experience never occurred by distinct cultural groups simply transforming themselves at random, or doing what ones’ ancestors did, but rather all periods of progress were shaped by the cross pollinating of the best ideas of various cultures, never just replacing one set of ideas FOR another, or adding one set of ideas TO another, but rather creating new wholes that are more than the sum of their parts and containing ever greater degrees of power to creatively discover and communicate truths of those universal principles guiding mankind and nature. This is the proper definition and purpose of “science” and “art” and their effects as technological progress as expressed across ALL cultures.”
https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/07/17/the-brics-as-an-antidote-to-the-intellectual-nothingness-of-cultural-relativism/