"The People’s Republic of China is not a fragile polity. It is an authoritarian success story. And authoritarian China is winning. African countries lean toward China. Westerners compete to do business there, on Chinese terms".
Le scénario est inquiétant pour les avocats de la démocratie à l’occidentale : "Democracy is in trouble across the world because of the rise of China, an authoritarian superpower that has the economic clout to back and bail out authoritarian regimes around the globe. Joined by ever richer and more influential petro-powers leveraging the enormous wealth of Sovereign Investment Funds, Asia will determine the fate of democracy, at least in the foreseeable future. Authoritarian China, joined by its authoritarian friends, is well on the way to defeating the global forces of democracy" écrit Edward Friedman dans Dissent.
