 As China seeks to burn down what remains of the liberal order, “disparate actors are starting to join forces to roll back Beijing’s power,” Michael Beckley writes in a new essay. “In the process, they are reordering the world.”
“For the first time since the Cold War, a critical mass of countries face serious threats to their security, welfare, and ways of life,” Beckley notes, and all emanate from a single source: China. Order building requires a common enemy, and Beijing’s “surge of repression and aggression” is driving countries near and far to hold China in check with new economic and military networks. “If China continues to scare democracies into collective action,” the system that emerges “could be built out into the most enlightened order the world has ever seen.”
“Xi Jinping’s New World Order” by Elizabeth Economy “The New Cold War” by Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis “How Not to Win Allies and Influence Geopolitics” by Audrye Wong “The Plot Against China?” by Wang Jisi “China’s Search for Allies” by Patricia M. Kim
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