Liberalism is facing a crisis and it's a cop-out to blame China and Russia, analyst claims
Liberalism is facing its “greatest crisis in decades”, in part because western governments have failed to uphold their values and Donald Trump has damaged the west’s moral authority, according to a new Lowy Institute paper.
The scathing assessment, published on Wednesday, is accompanied by a call for countries including Australia to work towards a “more inclusive order driven by a common imperative in meeting 21st-century challenges such as climate change, pandemic disease and global poverty”.
Dr Bobo Lo, a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and a former...