The Western fight against the tide of history
Catastrophic policy may be blamed on a lack of self-awareness, or the
belief that the world sees the West the way the West sees itself
by Jan Krikke
Jan Krikke
Jan Krikke is a former Japan correspondent for various media, former
managing editor of Asia 2000 in Hong Kong, and author of Creating a
Planetary Culture: European Science, Chinese Art, and Indian Transcendence
(2023).
Talk of war is getting louder in the West. The German minister of defense
proclaimed this month that Germany has to rebuild its army, as did his
British colleague.
At the start of the war in Ukraine two years ago, the Western media
depicted the Russian military as hopelessly ineffective, outdated, and
corrupt. Yet in recent weeks, Russia has become an imminent danger that
requires the rearmament of Europe.
On the other side of the world, we see a similar transformation. In 1972,
the West signed up for the one-China policy. Last year, high-ranking
Western government officials made widely publicized visits to Taiwan in
support of “pro-democracy forces.”
Earlier, in 2020, the US Congress passed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act that
imposed sanctions on officials and entities in Hong Kong and mainland
China that violate “Hong Kong’s autonomy.”
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https://asiatimes.com/2024/01/the-western-fight-against-the-tide-of-history/
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