America: the perils of being No 1
For now, the world must cope with an America whose power exceeds its wisdom in an environment where chaos rules. Read More Here
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Don’t be fooled by Biden and Xi talks
China and the US are enduring rivals, not engaged partners, and that won’t change any time soon. Read More Here Also Read: Summing Up the Biden-Xi Summit
Is A Chinese-Led World Order Inevitable?
With China led by a hyper-realist CCP with the growing capacity of a superpower, the world needs to watch for a potential Chinese bid for domination. Read More Here
America Needs Strategic Empathy In A Multipolar World
The reality is that middle powers have independent security, economic, and regional interests (among others) that cut against America’s Manichean worldview and abstract objectives. Read More Here
The Geopolitical Olympics: Could China Win Gold?
In the past two decades, China has risen further and faster on more dimensions than any nation in history. As it has done so, it has become a serious rival of what had been the world’s sole superpower. Read More Here
Wake up, America: The World Just Isn’t That Into You
It’s pointless to complain when America’s allies ask in so many words, “What have you done for us lately?” To the rest of the world, America looks like a declining power, because it is a declining power. Read More Here
Can America Lose To China?
The real danger of the demonization of China is that it leads even thoughtful Americans to believe that an open society like America has many natural advantages over a closed autocratic system like China’s. By framing it in this way, Americans cannot even conceive of the possibility of losing out to China. Read More Here
China’s Great Challenge Isn’t America, But A Baby Bust
A superpower denied? China’s economic growth rate will slow appreciably going forward, as will its pace of development and innovation, thanks to a demographics nightmare. And the world needs to take notice. Read Here | The National Interest
The New ‘End Of History’
China’s unshakeable presence as a superpower affirms that geopolitics has become, for the first time in history, both multipolar and multi-civilizational. But this does not make China the new end of history. It represents about 15 percent of global GDP, not the 50 percent embodied in post-war America. Furthermore, the geographic playing field does not favour China… […]
China Is Not Ten Feet Tall
China is the second most powerful country in the world and the most formidable competitor the United States has faced in decades. Yet at the same time, and in spite of its many visible defects, the United States remains the stronger power in the U.S.-Chinese relationship—and it has good reason to think it can stay […]
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