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The emerging age of ambiguity in the global order
The US and China will remain at the heart of a fluid international order, one in which the complexities of interdependence will make it increasingly difficult to neatly classify relationships as ‘friend’ or ‘foe’.
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The US and China will remain at the heart of a fluid international order.
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Looking around the world today, I cannot but conclude that we have seen this movie before.
The cast of characters and locations may have changed. But whether we look at the war in Ukraine, or US-China strategic rivalry, or aggressive Chinese behaviour in the East and South China seas and the Himalayas, or the consequent stresses on globalisation and the risks of a world recession, these are not new plots. They are new variants of old plots within established patterns of state behaviour.
