The West’s Decline Would Hurt China
From the British vote to leave the EU to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump in the US, these are trying times for Western democracies. While Chinese leaders may be tempted to gloat, their own legitimacy depends on the success of countries that are, after all, China's main trading partners.
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HONG KONG – Official Chinese media are having a field day touting the dysfunction of Western democracies. Between the British vote to “Brexit” the European Union and the nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for the US presidency, not to mention increasingly frequent terrorist attacks, they have plenty of evidence. But the truth is that the West’s loss is not China’s gain.