What Scares The West About China?

China’s Success vs The West’s Failures

Dr Michael Heng
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readApr 21, 2024

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Illustration from www.chinadaily.com

Why is the West so concerned and fearful about China? The usual typical answer is that China’s economic growth is challenging the global hegemony that the West has dominated for at least 250 years.

According to the late Professor Dennis Etler (1947–2021), what scares the West is not just China’s economic and military…

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Dr Michael Heng
ILLUMINATION

Top 50 Global Thought Leader and Influencer on CSR, Explorer, Enabler. Top Writer in Poetry. Drives ventures and enterprises. ILLUMINATION Editor and Writer.