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Saturday 2 January 2021

Martin Jacques: Is China the sea and America King Canute?


3:00  Non-Westerners are basically savages.

The assumption that Western values are universal.  

4:00  The hubris of Francis Fukuyama

6:00  The West has become more provincial making narcissistic demands.

8:00  America is clearly in decline and suffering from dementia and in deep trouble. 

9:00  Do Americans even understand themselves? Americans, know yourselves!

Americans and their politicians are suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. 

10:00  Martin Jacques:  "Americans are very ignorant and parochial." 

11:00  Confucian values

12:00  The Chinese: "L’état, c’est moi."

13:00  Democracy is a serious problem for the West. 

14:00 Xi Jinping

15:00  China is a meritocracy, British politicians are incompetent. 

16:00  Democracy

17:00  One dominant race and ethnic diversity

18:00  Developmental diversity 

19:00  The West has serious difficulties which will get bigger.

Iraq

The West is getting weaker.  

20:00  The West is getting more diverse.  

The attempt to impose French values

East and West Germany

More than merely racial differences

21:00  Harmonising Western societies

22:00  Western universalism

The Chinese Model

23:00  "We have so much to learn from a country like China."

The state is the patriarch in China. 

The West is a matriarchy. 

24:00  Lockdown

Rebalancing the values of the West between the individual and the collective

25:00  Vaccine

West coping far worse with Covid than the East.

Arresting China's rise

26:00  The rise of China and the developing world  is unstoppable.  

27:00  Are Western nations going to be like King Canute?

Humble pie for America

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