![]() ![]() Unless, of course, it changes path before it is too late. In a provocative new thesis – laid out in his book “Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy” – veteran diplomat Professor Kishore Mahbubani takes as his starting point the common idea that the defining geopolitical clash of the century will be between the USA and China, but moves to a startling conclusion: that the US is in danger of losing this battle, if indeed the battle needs to be fought at all.Ī former President of the UN Security Council, Mahbubani is an open admirer of the US, but makes clear that he believes the economic, political and values strengths that underpinned US pre-eminence in the late twentieth century have been eroded, and that the US’s inability to understand this and incorrect reading of China will lead to an inevitable clash that will have devastating consequences. ![]()
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