Powrót Chin do centrum światowej sceny
China is back in the centre of the world stage

Author(s): Bogdan Góralczyk
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Theory, Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: strategy; geostrategy; China; US; global order; liberal order; Chinese classic order – tianxia; new cold war; power politics
Summary/Abstract: China’s spectacular, unprecedented economic growth in the last four decadeshas brought about a spectre of a new global order. An order in which the currenthegemonic power, the US, is not the lone dominant factor and the power centreanymore. Is the world moving towards a new cold war, or is it already in the‚Thucydides trap’, with a real war on the horizon? The author argues, based on ampleprevious research, that nothing is certain yet. However, starting from the events of2018 and with the ‚Donald Trump factor’ at play, the situation has become verydynamic, as the US has finally recognized that it has a real competitor and contender,that is constantly growing and rising China. Power politics is back on the globalstage, focusing especially on emerging China, which overshadowed Russia, India,Europe (the EU), and all the other factors. We have a new era and a new dynamicswith two superpowers instead of one, and probably a new bipolar system, maybestable, but also not unlikely to cause a limited war. That is why, in the near future, weshould, like it or not, focus our attention on the current state of US-China relations.

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