The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana
China is working to recast the international order in ways that favour its interests, not those of the United States. In this article from
International Affairs, Christopher Layne suggests that a transition is taking place with US power in relative decline while China’s is rising. The US foreign policy establishment has invested the idea of a ‘rules-based, institutionalized’ international order with a talismanic quality, suggesting that the liberal world order cannot survive the erosion of US hegemonic power. This structural change that threatens the post-Second Word War international order’s survival as China shows no signs of subordinating itself to the
Pax Americana.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/files/chathamhouse/images/ia/INTA94_1_6_249_Layne.pdf
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