{"id":8943,"date":"2021-01-15T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117720\/china-need-not-fear-challenge-racist-crumbling-west"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:00:07","slug":"china-need-not-fear-the-challenge-of-a-racist-crumbling-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/china-need-not-fear-the-challenge-of-a-racist-crumbling-west\/","title":{"rendered":"China need not fear the challenge of a racist, crumbling West"},"content":{"rendered":"Oswald Spengler, the prophet of the decline of the West, left a terrible question for the West more than a century ago. If the decline of the West is caused by its own doing, then it has no one to blame. But if the rise of non-white people causes the West to decline, should the West eliminate them?The crisis in the West is racial war by nature. The Western angst about China echoes the \u201cYellow Peril\u201d sentiment as well. We are again living in a Spenglerian world.The Yellow Peril theme was\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3117720\/china-need-not-fear-challenge-racist-crumbling-west\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oswald Spengler, the prophet of the decline of the West, left a terrible question for the West more than a century ago. If the decline of the West is caused by its own doing, then it has no one to blame. But if the rise of non-white people causes the W&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8952,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/8952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}