Anthony Rayner: Winners and losers of the world

It is common to look at how the world is changing through the lens of globalisation or technological innovation but another way of looking at changing dynamics is to focus on power bases. In fact, the combination of globalisation and technology has led to material change in power bases and, as ever, there have been winners and losers. The new power bases are China, India and the technology disrupters themselves. Some of the losers are the US, an empire in decline, and the UK, an empire already declined and struggling to find its way post-Brexit. As a result of these dynamics, in the ‘los...