Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed.… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance -… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal. — Martin Jacques Copy Share
Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a… — Martin Jacques Copy Share
