“...the lamp of the West still shines brightly in Asia.”

“...the lamp of the West still shines brightly in Asia.”  That's the concluding phrase of Bret Stephens' excellent piece in today's Wall Street Journal about the current struggle in Hong Kong.  He speaks directly to one of my pet peeves: the overwhelmingly admiring tones used by America's pundits and lamestream media when speaking of mainland China...