But there is a common thread: Over the past 150 years, since the introduction of modernity to China, modern civilization (often identified as "Western") has in many areas run into problems.
二者雖毫不相干，但卻有一個共同的質數，就是一個半世紀以來，西方文明進入東亞，其本身不斷演變而成的現代文明，和在完全不同的領域引發的問題。