Why crumbling West must humble itself to shape the post-pandemic world order | South China Morning Post

As tensions over the Taiwan Strait mount, everyone needs to think through whether war is inevitable. Leon Trotsky is credited as saying, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you . " If we slip into war by what historian Barbara Tuchman called the " march of folly ", can the great powers step back from mutual nuclear annihilation? When the world's only superpower suffers more Covid-19 deaths than any other country - more than 730,000 at the last count - and left Afghanistan in defeat, no one should be surprised if people ask whether…