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White-knuckle time for Asia as Trump could twist either way
He might strike a grand bargain with Beijing or confront it. Neither prospect is very good for Asian security arrangements.
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US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shaking hands during the Group of 20 leaders' summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.
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A new world order is emerging, with geopolitical convulsions not seen in decades. But no one yet knows the shape it will take nor how it will unfold.
Multipolarity though seems to be the word tripping off the tongues of politicians and pundits everywhere, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. There has been ominous talk of the three great powers, the United States, Russia and China, carving up the planet into spheres of influence, much like the Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia of George Orwell’s chilling novel, 1984.
