Pascal Coppens is an international keynote speaker who gives speeches and workshops and who shares his expertise about innovation in China. He has lived and worked in China and Silicon Valley for over 20 years. Pascal has written two best selling books on China: Can We Trust China?: A Different View on a Country in Transition – June 6, 2022 and China`s New Normal – September 1, 2019.
In this video Pascal Coppens discusses the West’s growing fear of China’s rise, emphasizing the need to understand China’s influence from the perspective of bottom-up innovation rather than top-down authoritarian control, and outlines paradigm shifts towards a multi-polar world where the Global South may align away from traditional Western dominance.
Main Points of this video:
- Western fear of China is more rooted in the perception of threat than the reality of China’s actions or intentions.
- China’s rise is framed in the context of its economic growth, technological advancements, and potential shift in global power dynamics.
- The paradigm shifts involve increased South-to-South trade, emerging security coalitions independent of NATO, de-dollarisation trends, and technology overcapacity engineered by China.
- The narrative of democracies versus autocracies is disputed, with the real global narrative suggested to be a bipolar world versus a multipolar world.
- The Belt and Road Initiative and BRICS are seen as efforts by China and the Global South to establish a more multipolar world order and reduce Western-centric influence.
- European nations face a dilemma between economic benefits offered by China and their traditional alignment with the United States and its democratic values.
- Focusing solely on top-down control by the CPC overlooks the significant impact of bottom-up entrepreneurial growth and competitiveness in China.
Has our world already turned multi-polar and our politicians fail to recognize or are unwilling to accept this paradigm shift?