The West and China share the same fate – UnHerd

A simple and easy narrative is often provided to explain our present moment: a new Cold War, we re told, is dawning between the United States and China, complete with a global ideological battle between democracy and autocracy . The future of global governance will be determined by the winner that is, unless a hot war settles the question early with a cataclysmic fight to the death, much as liberal democracy once fought off fascism.

In some ways, this picture is accurate: a geopolitical competition really is in the process of boiling over into open confrontation. But it s also fundamentally shallow and misleading. When it comes to the most fundamental political questions, China and the United States are not diverging but becoming more alike, with both superpowers converging on the same not-yet-fully-realised system of technocratic-managerial governance.

via unherd.com

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