Trouble viewing this email? View in a browser Japan Update November 9, 2019 Francis Fukuyama,  30 years on:  Is the world turning  Chinese? Francis Fukuyama, the scholar  who declared the victory of  democracy 30 years ago, now  sees the system under assault in  the face of rising populism,  widening inequality and  anxiety over globalization. Fukuyama says the world has yet to find an alternative to  liberal democracy, with the  sole exception of China's  state-led capitalism, though  he says he does not want to  see the world looking like  China a hundred years from now.

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