The critical global struggle of our generation will not be over the shift in economic power – it will be between our values and those of China. The contrasting processes of selection for a national leader have just dramatised this difference. In Africa, China's mantra, publicly expressed on a presidential tour of the continent, has been, "we ask no questions" – an approach that might be exemplified by its dealings with Guinea. The military junta that preceded President Condé resorted to the gun yet more gruesomely than Boiro's killers, mowing down 157 pro-democracy demonstrators in a stadium. Within a month a Chinese company flew in and signed a multibillion-dollar deal.
The west's economic battle with China will be lost: power will inevitably shift. The battle of values can be won, and if it is won the shift in economic power will be less consequential. But we will only win the battle of values if we put our house in order. We must decisively end our schizophrenic stance of preaching decency while being lackeys for crooks and sharks.
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