The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

Because while pursuing its hybrid form of communist-capitalism, the CCP has managed to purchase greater influence and respectability across the world. The elites of America and Europe thought that bringing China into international organizations would push democratic norms into the country. Instead, China has pushed democratic norms out of international organizations. It has used the period since its 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization to especially great effect. In the year 2000, most countries in South America, Africa, the Far East and Australasia, and Europe did more trade with America than they did with China. By 2020, that situation was inverted. In just twenty years, all these parts of the globe were doing more business with China than they were with America. During that period, America had fallen from more than 75 percent of total global trade to just over 25 percent.4 And eating up all that difference was China, which went rocketing up in exactly the opposite direction.