On August 10 2010 Prime Minister Naoto Kan, on the occasion of the centenary of the colonial annexation of Korea by Japan, has expressed to South Korea [...] once again his deep remorse and heartfelt apology for the tremendous damage and suffering caused by colonial rule. [...]

Despite the Japanese government has already apologized several times to South Korea, this
time the excuses seem to be more sincere. For the first time the Prime Minister admitted that the colonial rule was imposed against the will of the Korean people, has promised the return of the Royal Protocols of the Joseon Dynasty and no government official attended the August 15 2010 in commemoration of the fallen in Yasukuni Shrine, where many war criminals are commemorated.

On April 9, 2015, after a month of protests of the Rhodes Must Fall movement and following the positive vote of the Council of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, the statue of the colonialist Cecil Rhodes was temporarily removed waiting for the permanent removal. The protests are then continued bringing the insourcing of the University workers previously outsourced.

In recent months always in South Africa the Open Stellenbosch movement is moving to the University of Stellenbosch for English as the primary language to the place of Afrikaans and the insourcing of the workers, the Rhodes Student Representative Council of the University of Grahamstown has achieved that the Council of the Rhodes University of Grahamstown approved the discussion to change its name and the #feesmustfall movement, started at the Witwatersrand University of Johannesburg and spreaded in other universities, has achieved zero university fee increase for the new year.

... "Make no mistake about it: whatever Washington may want, China is indeed the rising power in Eurasia and a larger-than-life economic magnet. From London to Berlin, there are signs in the EU that, despite so many decades of trans-Atlantic allegiance, there is also something too attractive to ignore about what China has to offer. There is already a push towards the configuration of a European-wide digital economy closely linked with China. The aim would be a Rifkin-esque digitally integrated economic space spanning Eurasia, which in turn would be an essential building block for that post-carbon third industrial revolution." ...

From "Silk Roads, Night Trains and the Third Industrial Revolution in China" by Pepe Escobar.