Human Wrongs Watch
By Johan Galtung*
5 March 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — The world is getting worse. Violence used to be clustered around US global and Israeli regional hegemony, and still is. But add to that:
Johan Galtung
* “The unstoppable growing power of China” (NYT editorial 28 Feb 2018)
* “Erdögan’s Neo-Ottomanism at a Dangerous Turning Point” Pier Zaccone (Other-news.info/2018/02, 28 Feb 2018). One global, with “Military buildup on the reefs” in South China Sea (NYT), one regional.
There are similarities. Xi and Erdögan have a religious base, Buddhism and Islam. And great successes, Xi in “lifting the bottom up”, Erdögan in ridding his country of secular military dictatorship.
One may speculate that the successes have gone to their heads so they see themselves as indispensable for the countries, and as invincible. Being male and strong they have Trump’s approval, a fragile benefit.
