Name: Martin Jacques: West holds on to a fantasy of the world
Uploaded: 2026-05-07T16:04:42+08:00
Duration: 1 min 25 s
Description: The West assumed that as China developed, it would come to resemble the West, British academic Martin Jacques says. It didn't, and it won't. Behind this assumption lies the fantasy that the West is the world, he continues. All it takes to shatter these

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The West assumed that as China developed, it would come to resemble the West, British academic Martin Jacques says. It didn't, and it won't. Behind this assumption lies the fantasy that the West is the world, he continues. All it takes to shatter these illusions is a visit to China, and you can see "the world is actually somewhere around here," he concludes. #GoodPoint

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