Escobar: 'Westlessness' As A Cover For US Vs. China Escobar: ‘Westlessness’ As A Cover For US Vs. China Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Few postmodern political pantomimes have been more revealing than the hundreds of so-called “international decision-makers,” mostly Western, waxing lyrical, disgusted or nostalgic over “Westlessness” at the Munich Security Conference. …