The West is in rapid decline and it had better wake up to a world which is no longer seen through its eyes, a leading thinker will tell this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World, will tell a debate on the rise of the BRICs countries on Saturday that the rise of China and countries such as India and Brazil will transform the lives of people in the West.
He says China’s impact on the West is mainly economic for now. “Over time, though, it will become political, social, cultural and linguistic. It will be all enveloping.”
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The West ‘has had its day’
24 October 2012
Western culture could be transformed by the rise of the BRICs countries, a debate at the Festival of Ideas will hear later this week.