In a commentary piece in La Repubblica, historian Timothy Garton Ash wonders simply how sturdy China will turn out to be:
“’America is again,’ stated President Joe Biden earlier this yr, and the complete democratic world breathed a sigh of reduction. However as we watch the debacle of the US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan – Kabul as Saigon 2 – a ghostly voice whispers to us: what if America just isn’t again? … What occurs then? The Chinese language century? China nearly actually turns into a dominant energy in Asia, however not the predominant one. Japan, India and Australia, to not point out a United States nonetheless current within the Indo-Pacific, will all work to keep away from that. … In China itself, the contradictions will, eventually, ship its personal inner disaster.”
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