16 May

The Chinese play a long game the kidult West has no hope of understanding or emulating. The Chinese text on the left says that there’s no rush, everything is under control. Asia’s capacity to think and act over centuries, rather than the 10-minute trending trivialities of current Western social media culture, is actually the world’s only hope. Asia once ran the world, and is one of the only reasons any of us is here today. That time may be returning.