Alex Lo: Even the West no longer thinks Western values are universal
Alex Lo writes: Speaking at the G20 summit in Bali, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: “China unequivocally poses a systemic threat – well, a systemic challenge – to our values and our interests.”
An official document laying out Canada’s new Indo-Pacific strategy said: “China is looking to shape the international order into a more permissive environment for interests and values that increasingly depart from ours.”
Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said global norms in the 21st century must be defined by “American values”.
So, they are not even Western or European values but American values.
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