The West has power, but often little self-insight

Summary:  The Economist is one of the great con-jobs of western journalism.  Mostly written by young college graduates, its subscribers imagine they read deep world wisdom.  Here we have a fine example of callowness, blind to the irony of an Englishman writing about Americans (two imperial powers) who criticize China for treating its neighbors poorly.  Perhaps the writers of …

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