three events that disrupted euro centric world: martin wolf in FT

1914: ww1
1944: end of ww2
1989: end of soviet union + tienanmen

all three rewrote the world away from colonial europe's domination

same thing is happening this year with 2014: namo rise, abe assertion, xi revanchism

in a few years, europe will be rendered fully irrelevant

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b4b18022-efc2-11e3-9b4c-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=crm/email/2014611/nbe/Comment/product&siteedition=intl#axzz348GShyPM

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