Extremely well argued Sarah. As is El Gato’s article.

Stay and fight? But who will do this fighting?

The same arguments about an asiatic culture capable and inclined to work towards a goal that no individual involved will live long enough to see fulfilled apply to resistance from a western culture fixated on the here and now. Or the next four/five year political election cycle.

It has taken a multigenerational effort to have infiltrated western society in The Long March. It will take an equally strong commitment to unpick the embedded forces. And we (western society) are demonstrably ill-equipped, disinterested and incapable of recognising the need for such a root and branch societal disinfection. A large part of the problem is that we are now they and they us. To even contemplate resistance is to attempt to close the stable door a century after the Trojan Horse has bolted into our yard.