Does Tony Blair regret bringing China into world order?

Tony Blair reflects on bringing China into the world trading framework and whether the West squandered its unipolar moment.

• Blair and Clinton made the key decision to bring China into the global trading framework in the 1990s-2000s.
• Blair views today’s multipolar world as both good and inevitable, not a failure of Western policy.
• China and Russia have since moved to positions he describes as fundamentally hostile to Western democracy.
• Blair does not believe in containing or constraining China, but insists on retaining military and technological superiority.
• He argues the West over-attributes global change to its own actions; other powers operate on their own principles.
• The unipolar Anglo-sphere moment of the 90s was consciously used to integrate rising powers, not entrench Western dominance.

2024-06-28 · Watch on YouTube