https://www.scmp.com/rss/326928/feed Professor Sir Keith Burnett is vice-chancellor and president of the University of Sheffield and chair of Sheffield’s award-winning Confucius Institute. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Accusations levelled against China that its actions could result in a tit-for-tat trade war with the US do not reflect the China I have come to know in my own work with universities and industries there. One recent article in The Economist mourned that the West had lost the bet on China. Which bet? That once China became more prosperous, its people would inevitably crave democracy. That progress meant the Chinese would adopt our system and, enlightened, they would wish to become like us, of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2142384/its-too-late-stop-chinas-rise-so-west-must-start-question?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2142384/its-too-late-stop-chinas-rise-so-west-must-start-question?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:15:15 +0000