18 December 2009

Analyse this

When China’s leaders talk about effective global governance, there is another flicker of hope.

The choice now is between a world in which powerful states are held in check by co-operative multilaterism; or one that is riven by the clash of narrow nationalisms. During the present decade everything changed. The next will be described by whether the great powers – old and rising – prove themselves masters or victims of a new global order.

Philip Stephens in the FT. What is it about that piece which makes me shudder?

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