The belief that through free trade, economic growth and increased foreign interaction China would evolve into a liberal democratic society was based on a deeply flawed understanding of Chinese culture, according to Habi Zhang. In Law and Liberty, he discusses China and the West’s incompatible understandings of human beings – and how Western elites got it so wrong.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
