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West’s enemies may be evil, but there’s no ‘axis’
Democracies should tease out the contradictions between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, instead of dangerously lumping them together as a bloc.
Janan GaneshContributorWhenever a dictator or ruling cleric attacks the honour of the Western world, they are conceding a rather important point. There is something there to attack. The West is a coherent entity.
It is made up, for the most part, of Christian or post-Christian societies around the upper Atlantic. Most of them experienced, to various degrees and at different times, the Enlightenment. Each now practises some version of democratic capitalism.
Financial Times
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