China’s growing power simply restores its global economic clout

After Ophelia, and especially after a Fianna Fáil ard fheis, don’t forget that the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opens in Beijing today. It may be more important.

After all, China is the rising power. The West in relative terms, is in decline. Certainly, the hegemony of the 20th century is over.

A combination of the steam engine and colonialism drove Western power around the world.