Martin Jacques：China overtook the United States as the largest economy in the world！！！

For the past hour, we’ve heard a powerful message: China is not just another rising nation — it is a rising civilization.
Martin Jacques showed us that China’s strength comes from something deeper than GDP numbers. It comes from a political and cultural continuity stretching back 2,000 years, a unique model of governance rooted in meritocracy, and a view of modernity that doesn’t need to copy the West.
And that’s why Western predictions — that China would fail, or turn into a Western-style democracy — were completely wrong.
He reminded us: the West misunderstood China because it insisted on using its own lens. It assumed there is only one version of progress — Western modernity. But in reality, multiple modernities exist, and China’s is rising fast. Here’s the real question now:
Why have they done so well… and why has the West done so bad?
Maybe the answer is simple:
When you believe your model is universal…
when you stop learning…
when you dismiss others instead of trying to understand them…
you fall behind.
China never tried to become someone else — it doubled down on its own strengths:
a long civilizational memory, strong governance, cultural confidence, and the ability to adapt at scale.
Meanwhile, the West spent decades convinced that it would always lead — and ignored the world changing right in front of it.
So yes — China’s rise challenges old assumptions.
But it also offers a new possibility: the future will not look like the past.
No single civilization owns the blueprint of success anymore.
And now, I want to hear from you:
Is the West struggling because others are learning faster?
Or because it refuses to believe others can?
Tell me what you think.
Let’s keep this conversation going — because the next chapter of global history… is being written right now.
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