It is national sovereignty that has given China and India their edge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1572100,00.html

The defeat of colonial rule will come to be seen as the defining event
of the 20th century

Martin Jacques
Saturday September 17, 2005
The Guardian


What was the most important event of the 20th century? The answer might
once have been 1917. More recently, the favourite has been its
historical nemesis, 1989. The different vantage points offered by
history provide different perspectives and, as a consequence, different
judgments. What might seem incontrovertible to one generation appears
less obvious to the next, and perhaps not at all obvious, even
perverse, to the one that follows.

Neither date will, I suspect, stand the test of time in terms of their
overarching historical significance. Viewed from the perspective of the
future, the most important event of the 20th century may well turn out
to have been neither 1917 nor 1989, but the defeat of colonialism and
the triumph of national liberation after the end of the second world
war. Without this momentous event, the transformation of Asia that we
are witnessing today and that is reshaping the world so profoundly
would have been impossible.

Imperialism
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Colonialism
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Martin Jacques
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