China’s CCP 90 years old, faces hard road ahead

In The Fear of Barbarians French writer Tzvetan Todorov divides the world’s countries into four types: those led by appetite, those by resentment, those by fear, and those by indecision. In the camp of appetite sit the countries of the developing world, with their hunger for resources to push forward economic growth. In the resentment camp lie those who are motivated by anger over their treatment by the dominant powers like the US and Europe. The US and Europe, in fact, belong to the ‘fear’ camp – aware of the competition now coming to them from newly emerging countries.