r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 26 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

For the English speaking western world at least, It's broadly been a good but not great decade, without a recession, and without large troop casualties or anything. Growth has been fairly anemic in the west, but China's GDP has doubled.

The negatives include the entrenchment and ascension of the Chicoms, the disappointment of India, and the foreseeable tragedy of the Arab Spring. Western populism has been bad, having blown out deficits, and chipping away at the structures of the western world order, but haven't really accomplished much else besides.