Even though a consequence of economic and military power, Western culture has been a model of progress for the rest of the world. But now many see the West in crisis and liberal democracy no longer the undisputed ideal. The values of democracy were easy to endorse when it created the world's most successful economies. But as the West loses its economic advantage, where will the world look to shape its future?

Will China’s authoritarian development model replace the former consensus around free market economics? Is Russia’s rejection of decadent liberalism an indicator of an alternative politics? Or will the strengths of liberal democracy win through and survive the economic eclipse of the West?

Spectator broadcast editor and Chinese Whispers podcast host, Cindy Yu, legendary human rights activist Peter Tatchell and economist and former Lib Dem leader Vince Cable clash over the future of the West.