China’s millennials are quite aware of the fall of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist political systems and the contrast with open, Western liberal societies that continue to endure. Furthermore, the existence of a free and democratic Taiwan just offshore and Hong Kong’s..…

When the AKP was launched in 2001, it blended an Islamist-rooted outlook with a pro-Western, democratic and liberal market approach which enjoyed broad popular backing. . ..…

Fourth, these processes of American decline have been accelerated by America's with the rolling military in Middle East across multiple wars the damage done to American and prestige through Global Financial Crisis and the increasing travails of what is seen and now Western, democratic..…

The in handling the recent protests Hong Kong and the weekly demonstrations France illuminate enormous between Western liberal democratic societies and non- Western socialist democratic ones. . ... China has rejected Western liberal democratic model,..…