The period we live in is a phase of great mutations. It is possible to say that Asia is the great winner of this century. Several factors explain this.
The Western world, in the beginning of the 1980, were in a phasis of neo liberalism, inspired by the school of Chicago. This period was represented by the arrival to power of Margareth Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. They put in place a system that proved its great inefficiency in the long run. In fact it possible to say that, on the contrary, the Asian countries made the reformist system more dominant. To this extend in China, during Deng Xiaoping, great investments have been made on economical development and also on education. The results are astounding in the long run, while China made a unique economical development in the long run. The results of China in the fight against poverty is historical as well. The idea is not to support in any case the Chinese regime, but to inspire from great successes the model put in place from Deng Xiaoping created.
India is also a greatly developing country. This country outcompeted for the first time the former colonizer Great Britain, which is an implicit revolution. It shows the fact Asia, a discreet way, is going back to its place it occupied most of the time in History. It looks to some extend the same for the Middle East, which is the equivalent of the Balkans one century ago, just before the First World War. This approach is necessary to build a system that can have serious consequences.
The Western world looks to be decadent today. The great amount of debt, the lower and lower level of education, rising violence in societies more impunished than before are real threat and show our declining system. We enter a new phase of history which is astounding. How the triumphant Western world 30 years ago is today weighting less and less in international relations, and it not dominant for the first time from two centuries. The idea is not to reject the resurrection of great Asian civilizations and cultures, but to interrogate the way of life the Western countries live today. It looks in many ways that there is a culture of mediocrity : the 2017 French presidential debate was greatly mediocrous compared with what were presidential debates before, for instance in 1974, 1981 or 1988. The quality of the debates in the American elections is also a symptom of that, with a quality of debates which is interrogating. This is really threatening for our democraties.
The young generations will have the responsibility to build a future where the Western world will have more place. This approach is absolutely necessary to counter the decline the Western world is diving in, and which is dangerous for the future of our civilization.
The observer 