LETTER: Trump leaves gap for China and Russia by ditching leadership role
Pendulum is swinging east amid an inward-looking shift by leading Western powers, away from their traditional roles as guarantors of liberalism, freedom and democracy
03 July 2019 - 05:01
The pendulum on the world scene is swinging increasingly east. It is no coincidence that this coincides with the inward-looking shifts by leading Western powers, away from their traditional roles as guarantors of Western liberalism, freedom and democracy.
The election of Donald Trump in the US and his moving away from the existing world order, in which freedom and equality anchored in Western liberalism and democracy played a central role, has had a global impact, including in SA...
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