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.”
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/