The world that will build China

Ex-Governor Hong Kong Chris Patten writes in Project Syndicate about the danger of the world order that Chinese hegemony promises:

“Political scientist Graham Alison in his book“ Doomed to Fight ”, published in 2018, notes that the United States and China at all pairs go to what he calls“ Fukidid’s trap ”(a reference to the work of an ancient Greek historian, who captured Sparta’s attempts to restrain the growth of Athens, which ultimately led to a Peloponyan war). You can find an even more suitable analogy for the current situation - this is a message sent by the Athenians to residents of the besieged island Melos before they executed all men and turned women and children into slavery: “The strong does what it can, and the weak suffers what he must endure.“ ”“ ”“ ”

Allowing China and other authoritarian countries to determine the rules, we can be in a world that will be arranged on the principle of realism. This is a nightmare scenario that the countries of the Great Seiney and other liberal democracies should strive to prevent.

Chinese statements regarding the decline of the West indicate a certain concern. In the end, if liberal democracies are in decline, then why are China authorities so afraid of this? The fact that the highest persons of the Communist Party of China ordered the ordinary members of the party to get involved in an intensive struggle against liberal-democratic values ​​shows that in open communities they see a threat to their existence. ”