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Martin Jacques

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Martin Jacques

@martjacques

Author, 'When China Rules the World', columnist, broadcaster, speaker. Chair of @HariVeriahTrust

London

Joined January 2012

Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Jul 5, 2022
For months the Western propaganda machine told us Russia had miscalculated, faced military humiliation, would suffer a huge economic crisis, and Putin would fall. Then the non-stop triumphalism began to wane, news became scarce. From wall to wall coverage, the BBC fell silent 1/7
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Sep 20, 2022
With regard to Covid deaths, China has hugely outperformed the West. China's total is 5,226 deaths, the US 1.05 million. China prioritised life, the West the economy. It was a huge embarrassment for the West. The West has never had the humility to acknowledge China's success.1/6
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Apr 29, 2022
It looks as if the coup in Pakistan was actively encouraged by the US worried about Imran Khan's growing links with China via Belt&Road. Expect more US-sponsored regime change in countries leaning towards China. Unlike US, China does not believe in such political interference
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Apr 23, 2022
Huge demos in Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi against the coup in Pakistan. Massive support for Imran Khan and anger against the corrupt political mafias and generals that unseated him with US support. Khan is a radical new voice of the people pursuing an independent foreign policy.
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Mar 25, 2022
How the World has Changed in just 20 Years
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Nov 4, 2021
Sinophobia seriously distorts the West's coverage of COP26. China has half the emissions per capita of the US. The US accounts for 75% of all greenhouse gas emissions ever. China has 50% of the world's EVs, provides 80% of the world's solar panels and has 400,000 electric buses.
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Jul 5, 2022
Replying to @martjacques
In fact, the West has miscalculated on an epic scale with the most profound and far-reaching consequences. How could the West have got it so wrong? Because they think the world is still somehow dominated by the West as it was for so long. That is history not the present. 2/7
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Jul 5, 2022
Replying to @martjacques
A prisoner of ways of thinking that belong to a previous era of Western dominance, the West inhabits a world that no longer exists. The West has its front to the past and its back to the future. It is out of time. And every miscalculation it makes only accelerates its decline.7/7
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Jul 5, 2022
Replying to @martjacques
Russia will not be defeated. But Ukraine will be. The West misled it. At the very least it will be dismembered. The Western defeat in Ukraine will join Iraq, Afghanistan and the 2008 financial crisis as famous landmarks in Western decline. 5/7
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Jul 5, 2022
Replying to @martjacques
This has been an extraordinary demonstration of how out of touch the US and Europe now are with the rest of the world (ie, the great majority of countries). Most do not share the Western view of the war. India has refused to do the West's bidding. ASEAN and China likewise. 3/7
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Jul 5, 2022
Replying to @martjacques
Europe's economy will shrink. Living standards will fall sharply. Europe will be riven with divisions. Governments will fall. The continent faces very dark times. The crisis will hasten Europe's growing marginality. It will pay a huge price for its Atlanticist turn 6/7
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Apr 1, 2022
Have you noticed that whenever China takes economic action against a country, the West calls it economic coercion; and whenever the West does it - and the West does it on a huge scale - it is called economic sanctions? Economic warfare of this kind has become a major US weapon.
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Jul 5, 2022
Replying to @martjacques
The rise of the developing world over the last 40 years has transformed the world. It is independent-minded and often leans towards China. The voice of the West matters less and less. And yet the West seems incapable - both right and left - of recognising this. 4/7
Martin Jacques
@martjacques
Nov 30, 2020
What is Scott Morrison's outrage really about? The photo? I think not. What really offends him is that he doesn't think the Chinese have a right to comment on the murderous behaviour of Australian special forces in Afghanistan.