The US aims to globalize democracy and make the world like itself, while China focuses on making China great rather than promoting its ideology globally. The US benefits from global stability, while Russia benefits from global instability as it leads to the rising prices of commodities. China, as a low-resource economy, relies on global resources, investments, and markets to benefit. The speaker suggests that the US and Britain, being high Protestant countries, have a universalism inherent in Christianity that emphasizes equality among all in God's eyes, underpinning their ideological viewpoints.
Fareed Zakaria says yes. But it’s not just political revolution — it’s economic, technological, even emotional. He doesn’t offer easy solutions but he does offer some hope.