Two to Watch
Again, too knackered to comment effectively, but I direct you to read these two articles on The Guardian's Comment is Free by Martin Jacques. He's a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, so should know what he's on about.
The most recent, Imperial overreach is accelerating the global decline of America, is a useful analysis of how the US is blind to what the real issues are, though I disagree that the Middle East is completely irrelevant. See the sample quote below:
In becoming so catastrophically engaged in the Middle East, making the region its overwhelming global priority, it downgraded the importance of everywhere else, taking its eye off the ball in a crucial region such as east Asia, which in the long run will be far more important to the US's strategic interests than the Middle East.
A real shame that we can't comment on it, though perhaps I'll e-mail him instead.
The other, How the west is lost, I've already commented on in the past. However, scroll down to the bottom for the 22 March comment by Franc. This is a perfect summary of how a Chinese person would typically think on the issues, and as such is an incredibly useful reference for anyone who wants to begin to understand China from a non-Western perspective.
