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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order QUOTES

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order QUOTES

1 " The end of colonialism, however, was a precondition for what we are now witnessing, the growth of multiple modernities and a world in which the new modernities are likely to prove at some point decisive. With hindsight, the defeat of colonialism between 1945 and the mid 1960s, the significance of which has been greatly underestimated in the West for obvious reasons, must rate as one of the great landmarks of the last century, perhaps the greatest. "

― Martin Jacques , When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

2 " The Western world order has – in its post-1945 idiom – placed a high premium on democracy within nation-states while attaching zero importance to democracy at the global level. As a global order, it has been anti-democratic and highly authoritarian. The emergence of China as the globally dominant nation is very unlikely to usher in a new kind of democratic global governance, but the rise of developing nations like India, Brazil and Russia, along with China, will bring, in a rough and ready way, a far more democratic global economy. "

― Martin Jacques , When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

3 " One of the major problems facing the reformers was that modernization became intimately associated with the West at a time when the latter was colonizing and humiliating the country: far from being seen as patriots, they were regarded as tainted by the West or, worse, as traitors. As a result, the growing hostility amongst the Chinese towards the West was to work against the process of reform. "

― Martin Jacques , When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order