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#Bestof2021: 1/2 The Future of Everything. Tom Standage @Economist (Original post November 2021)

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

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#Bestof2021: 1/2 The Future of Everything. Tom Standage @Economist (Original post November 2021)

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/china-hopes-to-flaunt-the-merits-of-its-political-system-over-americas?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=inf-a

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This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor and I welcome Tom Sandage, the editor of the

0:24.2

World Ahead 2022 from the Economist magazine. We're looking at 10 items to anticipate what we will

0:32.1

know completely, 365, 166 days from now. Tom, a very good day to you in the fall of 2022,

0:41.0

two events, a midterm election in the United States. The president's party historically has not

0:47.7

fared well in the first midterm following the win of the White House. At the same time,

0:53.8

there will be a choice in the People's Republic of China, the gathering October and November

1:00.8

for the next five years, and to my understanding, the General Secretary of the Party Xi Jinping

1:06.8

is standing for what will be common on precedent in third term. What do these two events tell us

1:13.5

about the World Ahead? Good day to you, Tom. Hello, it's good to be here. Yes, absolutely. I think that

1:20.3

this rivalry between you and the US and China, but more broadly, between democracy and

1:24.9

autocracy, is one of the prisms through which to understand not just the coming year, but in fact,

1:30.5

the coming couple of decades. I think this is one of the longer-term trends re-asserting itself

1:36.0

in the wake of the pandemic. It's going to be a particularly acute contrast in the fall of 2022,

1:41.8

because you're going to have democracy in America looking like a bit of a mess. I mean, it looks

1:48.3

like a bit of a mess already, but Joe Biden is trying to rally democracies and say, look, we need to

1:53.6

make the case for democracy. Democracy needs to do more than just survive. It has to show that it's a

1:58.4

better way of delivering prosperity and stability and economic growth and innovation and all those

2:04.8

sorts of things. At the moment, it's quite difficult to make a lot of those cases, and you look at

2:09.2

somewhere like China, which has been growing rapidly for quite a long time, and does seem to be able

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