The global reset of a new American leadership
From Shamsul Saad
Malaysia and our thought-makers have always been late to the party. We tend to follow Western trends to our detriment, always a decade or more too late. We lack the foresight beyond so-called conventional mainstream wisdom of the day.
Here is the main problem. Our thought leaders and policies tend to be trapped by the narratives of the global mainstream media and opinion-makers, which for the most part have been driven by globalisation and a capital market-driven worldview since the Bill Clinton administration and the formation of the European Union.
At the same time, fired up by Vice-President Al Gore’s climate alarmism and Western Europe’s feverish adoption of such policies, welfarist-socialism and lax immigration, the Western world turned away from reasoned, manufacturing-driven capitalism to liberal socialism fuelled by capital market growth via offshoring to cheaper locations in the developing world.
And with this so-called multilateralism emerged a new…
