Asian nations’ growing wealth is a trend that will only continue, challenging the Western power and influence that has dominated globally since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, according to author Gideon Rachman.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks about the rise of the East and the resultant tensions with Rachman (@gideonrachman), chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times and author of “Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond.”
- Read an excerpt from “Easternization”
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