The struggle for global power | Malcolm Rifkind, Melissa Chan, Cindy Yu and Michael Pembroke
25Malcolm Rifkind, Melissa Chan, Cindy Yu and Michael Pembroke discuss the relevance of the West.
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Many argue that the West is in decline, some go further claiming the Asian age has already begun. Yet US politics dominates the media. Are we in denial? Does the West cling to the idea of dominance fearing the reality of a radically different future? Or is the end of the West overdone?
Is it time to recognise that it is just not that important who the US president is, or what American policy is in the world? Should we be focussing on China, and its recently announced 5 year plan to triple GDP by 2035 and its 'civil-military strategy' to use technological advance to strengthen military power? Or does the US remain the most influential country in the world and will it remain so for decades to come?
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Former UK Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, China reporter and broadcast editor at The Spectator Cindy Yu, writer and historian Michael Pembroke, and Global Reporting Centre collaborator Melissa Chan. Rana Mitter hosts.
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