The Western Roots of China and the Chinese Roots of the West

The Western Roots of China and the Chinese Roots of the West

The new right today faces a dilemma. It is increasingly unclear what its core mission is. Is it to try to maintain the global dominance of Western nations? Or is it to remedy the severe problems that have been visited on Western nations by late liberalism? In politics, as in engineering, the amount of energy available for any given operation is always limited—and if that energy is misspent on one project, it will not be available for another. Th…