When you think about it the idea that the "West"—the geographical/political zone that gave us Napoleon, Leopold II, Franco, Hitler, Mussolini—is somehow less given to autocratic, militarist, or personalist excesses than a country to its east requires a wild leap of faith
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"World history travels east to west" except when we claim what happens in the east has nothing to do with the west
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And sometimes East and West converge: While researching a piece on Hong Kong I discovered that the Magna Carta's signing & Genghis Khan's conquest of Beijing happened in the same month, and eventually did the same thing (and their repercussions endure).
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