India, Sept. 2 -- Forget the end of history, as predicted by Francis Fukuyama. Or the clash of civilisations, as theorised by Samuel Huntington. Today, let us talk about the temporary abandonment of ideology, and a short-term embracement of trade and investments. Trade will trump calculated convictions. The future will negate history. Civilisations have turned a full circle: From the dominance of the East against a puny and uncultured West until the seventeenth century, to a reversal until the twentieth, it is time for the re-rise of the East.
This time, unlike the Cold War, when the world was randomly and chaotically divided between the Capitalist and Communist blocs, a new dual-power world is emerging, East versus West. The trade war may...