Asian leaders claimed their development model superseded the Anglo-Saxon one globally

Evidence

Fourth, East Asians argue that Asian development and Asian values are models which other non-Western societies should emulate in their efforts to catch up with the West and which the West should adopt in order to renew itself. The “Anglo-Saxon developmental model, so revered over the past four decades as the best means of modernizing the economies of developing nations and of building a viable political system, isn’t working,” East Asians allege. The East Asian model is taking its place, as countries from Mexico and Chile to Iran and Turkey and the former Soviet republics now attempt to learn from its success, even as previous generations attempted to learn from Western success. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 296

Categorization

• XREF: This claim that developing countries switched from copying Western to copying East Asian models connects to modernization theories about developmental ‘latecomers’ and to debates on the Washington Consensus vs the Beijing/developmental state model.