China s War on Western Values

My guess is that we're reaching the beginning of the end of 400 years I say 400 years because it's the end of the Ottoman Empire of the hegemony of Western power, Western institutions and Western values.

Clearly, national interests, and sometimes pure power, play a part in how the US and other Western countries apply values like human rights, the rule of law, democracy, and pluralism. But these values are not mere ideological window dressing for Western interests in fact, they are not that to any significant extent.

The supposedly civilizing influence of being a Western partner chairing a G 8 summit in Saint Petersburg for example seems to have been lost on Putin s Kremlin cabal. Once again exposure to Western values has delivered another Potemkin Village

One possible line of criticism of this kind of thinking is simply to claim the superiority of Western values. But another, more sympathetic response would be to show that individual rights and notions of freedom are by no means alien to non Western civilizations.

Western values may be under assault, but Western goods are welcome. A common sight in Russia is a shiny German made car with a bumper sticker recalling the glories of World War II On to Berlin or Thank you, grandfather, for the victory, and grandmother for the tough bullets.

The promise of Western integration is one reason that conflict seems impossible, for it is a question of geography as much as shared values and culture. Ukraine belongs to a united European political entity the values that Ukraine endorses and that are embedded in its history are European to the core.

At the same time, the Gülen movement invested heavily and shrewdly in cultivating Turkey s Western oriented intelligentsia. Thus, despite Gülen s own embarrassing history of anti Semitic and anti Western sermons, his followers managed to establish themselves by the 2000s as a civil society movement that shared Turkish liberals values and aspirations.

The Western scholar remains perfectly legitimate when putting to death Western values there is no Chinese or Muslim Nietzsche claiming that his own God is dead. Is there a Chinese or a Muslim Montaigne ready to write that the Indian savages may be wiser than us, as Montaigne did in 16th century France?

The Western scholar remains perfectly legitimate when putting to death Western values there is no Chinese or Muslim Nietzsche claiming that his own God is dead. Is there a Chinese or a Muslim Montaigne ready to write that the Indian savages may be wiser than us, as Montaigne did in 16th century France?

The notion of Asian values, promoted mostly by Singaporean official scribes, was partly a critique of universalist Western claims. Asians, according to this theory, have their own values, which include thrift, deference to authority, the sacrifice of individual to collective interests, and the belief that countries should not stick their noses into others affairs.

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This clash of Western civilizations could not be more important. Those who shut doors and build walls do not belong to the same family as those who welcome the needy in the name of higher values.

The supposedly civilizing influence of being a Western partner chairing a G 8 summit in Saint Petersburg for example seems to have been lost on Putin s Kremlin cabal. Once again exposure to Western values has delivered another Potemkin Village Russia presents a façade of laws and democratic institutions, but behind that cardboard surface the same arbitrary brutes rule.

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When France banned headscarves in schools, it used the hijab as a proxy for Western values in general, including the appropriate status of women. When Americans were being prepared for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were demonized for denying cosmetics and hair color to women when the Taliban were overthrown, Western writers often noted that women had taken off their scarves.

Cuba also offers an opportunity to expand the reach of Western liberal values. By maintaining Cold War era financial subsidies to Cuba, Russia has tried to ensure that the island remained a geopolitical flashpoint, as it was for the Soviet Union.

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However hard one tries, it is virtually impossible to root out corruption in a one party system without press freedom, a robust civil society, or the rule of law. Yet these are precisely the Western values that CCP apparatchiks are attempting to eliminate.

Unless the government s crackdown ends soon, Xi s Chinese dream of national greatness and prosperity will turn into a nightmare of accelerating decline and increasing backwardness. One way or the other, the war on Western values is a war that China can only lose.

So far, there is no case in history of non Western modernization the discourse on Asian values, initially started in Singapore, is basically a political discourse. It is after retooling their mindset towards innovation and self criticism that Asian countries have become modern.

Such concrete proposals for political reform inspired by Confucian values can rarely be published in mainland China. In fact, there are fewer constraints imposed on public discussion of liberal democratic institutions precisely because few Chinese are inspired by Western style liberal democracy.

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Diplomatic efforts by the outside world proved ineffective, so in March 1999, NATO began a 78 day bombing campaign against the Serbs. Blair was at the forefront among Western leaders in pressing for NATO action, and to justify this innovation in outside intervention he proclaimed a new doctrine of international community that made it a just war, because it was based on superior Western values.

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