> West dominated global policy via a more or less liberal democratic model This model only ever applied to Europe. Fruit companies and oil companies were more

> West dominated global policy via a more or less liberal democratic model This model only ever applied to Europe. Fruit companies and oil companies were more important than democracy elsewhere. South Korea and Taiwan were both autocracies for decades while we sponsored them in the name of freedom. What we did have was a foreign policy that mostly encouraged peace and prosperity via trade, which was nice while it lasted.