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kranke155today at 11:44 AM1 replyview on HN

It is absolutely a Chinese century. Even the comment above isn’t wrong per se - great power competition is normal during the interregnum, ie as Arrighi described it - one hegemon is rising while another is declining. But eventually one of them does rise and the world conforms to that - ie America in post WW2.


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bxk76today at 12:36 PM

Well China cant seem to make a single friend beyond North Korea and Russia. Everyone is a bit wary of them.

I mean when the US replaced the Brits as Hegemon a large part of the world wasnt nervous about it.

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