World order is on the pivot of transitioning from U.S. hegemony to shared Sino–U.S. primacy.
Alongside the decades-long growth in China’s comprehensive national power, the collapse of faith in Western values and institutions began with the financial crisis of 2008.
For an example of China’s long march through Western institutions, consider this. A British university ad for a job required “native or near-native fluency in Mandarin” — for a lecturer in music composition. In Australia, an over dependence on revenue from Chinese students and growing research links with Chinese institutions have stoked free speech and national security concerns.
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