World turns away from a declining US and toward China

[beijingwalker]

World turns away from a declining US and toward China
By Tim Montgomerie

November 8, 2015 | 6:00am

The Internet is full of fun facts about Trudeau. He stripteased for a charity function. He is a lefty with a left hook — having boxed a conservative senator on TV and won. His dad was also Canadian PM. His mom dated Jack Nicholson and Ted Kennedy.

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Canada’s Prime Minister-designate Justin TrudeauPhoto: Reuters
But for me, the most interesting thing about Trudeau is how he answered a question a couple of years ago. Asked to name the nation he most admired, his answer was “China.” And his explanation? “Their basic dictatorship,” he explained, “is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.”

After having stormed from third place in the opinion polls to win a majority, Trudeau’s faith in democracy may have been restored but the fact that one of the western world’s most senior politicians can express such respect for dictatorship is startling — and he’s far from alone.

Travel, for example, to the post-communist nations of eastern Europe and you’ll find faith in liberal democracy is not what it was.

I was in Budapest two weeks ago meeting representatives of Viktor Orbán’s administration. Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister and a man with a completely different kind of politics to Trudeau’s, has reached similar conclusions about the western model.

http://nypost.com/2015/11/08/world-turns-away-from-a-declining-us-and-toward-china/

 

[gambit]

It is dejas vu all over again...As if the world have never seen this kind of headlines before...

 

[Sanchez]

China is indeed not a dictatorship but a centraliized power that have existed for thousands of years.

 

[xyxmt]

China cannot be termed as dictatorship but a council of "wise men" who chooses a leadership. This is exactly how a Caliph was chosen in the early Muslim era that is when they were successful too. Democracy is full of flaws where a Philosopher and a mentally handicapped person have the same voting power how can you expect better results.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

here i thought Harper was a socialist @VALKRYIE

 

[Jlaw]

World turns away from a declining US and toward China
By Tim Montgomerie

November 8, 2015 | 6:00am

The Internet is full of fun facts about Trudeau. He stripteased for a charity function. He is a lefty with a left hook — having boxed a conservative senator on TV and won. His dad was also Canadian PM. His mom dated Jack Nicholson and Ted Kennedy.

Modal Trigger

Canada’s Prime Minister-designate Justin TrudeauPhoto: Reuters
But for me, the most interesting thing about Trudeau is how he answered a question a couple of years ago. Asked to name the nation he most admired, his answer was “China.” And his explanation? “Their basic dictatorship,” he explained, “is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.”

After having stormed from third place in the opinion polls to win a majority, Trudeau’s faith in democracy may have been restored but the fact that one of the western world’s most senior politicians can express such respect for dictatorship is startling — and he’s far from alone.

Travel, for example, to the post-communist nations of eastern Europe and you’ll find faith in liberal democracy is not what it was.

I was in Budapest two weeks ago meeting representatives of Viktor Orbán’s administration. Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister and a man with a completely different kind of politics to Trudeau’s, has reached similar conclusions about the western model.

http://nypost.com/2015/11/08/world-turns-away-from-a-declining-us-and-toward-china/

The opposing parties wouldn't let his quote go unnoticed.. They had a good time with it for awhile.

here i thought Harper was a socialist @VALKRYIE

Harper is conservative.

China cannot be termed as dictatorship but a council of "wise men" who chooses a leadership. This is exactly how a Caliph was chosen in the early Muslim era that is when they were successful too. Democracy is full of flaws where a Philosopher and a mentally handicapped person have the same voting power how can you expect better results.

Very true. The issues concerning the two are vastly different than one another. At the end you get a government that try to cater to both sides, neither side will be better off.

 

[gambit]

China cannot be termed as dictatorship but a council of "wise men" who chooses a leadership. This is exactly how a Caliph was chosen in the early Muslim era that is when they were successful too. Democracy is full of flaws where a Philosopher and a mentally handicapped person have the same voting power how can you expect better results.

Just about all the world's bloodiest dictators fancied themselves 'philosophers'.

 

[xyxmt]

Just about all the world's bloodiest dictators fancied themselves 'philosophers'.

who were also put in that place by people who call themselves philosophers. world's biggest dictators were installed by world biggest democracies...now that is the Irony

 

[gambit]

who were also put in that place by people who call themselves philosophers. world's biggest dictators were installed by world biggest democracies...now that is the Irony

Yeah...Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were 'installed' by democracies.

 

[xyxmt]

Yeah...Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were 'installed' by democracies.

would you come back from the past and study present?
why not talk about the plight of Indians then?

 

[Beast]

Yeah...Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were 'installed' by democracies.

Hitler was indeed install by democracy. Have you miss your history book?

 

[gambit]

Hitler was indeed install by democracy. Have you miss your history book?

By the Germans themselves. The man was insinuating that dictators were 'installed' by outsiders. Guess you ain't too sharp to figure that one out on your own.

 

[beijingwalker]

Hitler was indeed install by democracy. Have you miss your history book?

So was Mussolini

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[Zsari]

"The extension of democracy, the rule of law and human rights depends upon the countries that most embody those principles being strong enough to inspire emulation from other still developing and emerging countries."

So if you are democratic nation, you are involuntarily joint to the hips with the US? Nice sell. The failure of a system cannot be recovered by tying everyone onto the same bandwagon. Unfortunately US is still looking outward rather than inward for solution.

 

[faithfulguy]

Yeah...Stalin, Mao, and Hitler were 'installed' by democracies.

Hitler was voted into office. So you are correct on that count as the Germans made the Nazis the biggest party in the Reichstag.

If democracy truly works, than Barack Hussein Obama would never be voted into power.