Western Fragmentation vs Asian Cohesion

Decline meets discipline

Brecht Jonkers contrasts Asia’s cohesive, duty-bound vision of the state with the West’s atomized, individualist drift into bureaucratic irrelevance.

There is a fundamental difference between the “European”, i.e. basically liberal, and the “Asian” attitude towards the existence and the role of the state. It is a civilisational divide that transcends the …