The Ballad of East and West

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
— lines 1-4        Rudyard Kipling (1889)

Times are a changing and the old colonial powers are trying to turn the tide.

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