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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/West-meets-East.jpg2000700The world has experienced greater change in the past thirty years than it did in the previous three hundred. What we are all struggling to find is the one big idea that explains what we feel. I believe that the concept of “the great convergence” explains the massive change we are experiencing. Since human history […]