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This is a rather anemic entry in a 100-year-old genre. Westerners have been doom-mongering about the rise of China since at least the Boxer Rebellion. The FT r
by Emma_Goldman 8y ago
This is a rather anemic entry in a 100-year-old genre. Westerners have been doom-mongering about the rise of China since at least the Boxer Rebellion.
The FT ran a more informative and sober piece a week or two ago, on China's gambit to create a global energy network:
https://www.ft.com/content/bdc31f94-68aa-11e8-b6eb-4acfcfb08c11 https://www.ft.com/content/bdc31f94-68aa-11e8-b6eb-4acfcfb08...
- cbzbc 8y agoYes, generally with the economist ignore the editorials and read the news: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot-the-economics-of-the-colonial-cringe-quot-about-the-economist-magazine-washington-post-1991/7415/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot... As you say, doom-mongering about various parts of the world is a venerable genre and one which the Economist resorts to on a fairly regular basis (at least once a year there'll be scare pieces on China, and an article on why the French economy is doomed).