The End of Western Opportunism by Joschka Fischer – Project Syndicate

For the past 50 years, the West has clung to the hope that modernization would automatically transform China into a capitalist liberal democracy. For decades, maintaining this illusion was good for the bottom line, but now the implications of China’s ascendancy have become disturbingly clear.
— Read on www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-china-conflict-values-must-trump-economic-interests-by-joschka-fischer-2020-08