The threats of 'Western Universalism'

Book review of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

The author, Rajiv Malhotra has been on a mission for some three decades to expose what he calls “Western Universalism”, which he says is a point of view that western (=American, European, British) intellectuals have of using their own history as a reference point for all humanity. He has also consistently held that the elite in India, have “become prisoners” of these western frameworks. As an example of this, he points out how the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, which aims to improve the lives of African Americans, is presented by these Western intellectuals as equivalent to