As the US dismantles its global hegemony, will China step up?

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A Chinese foreign policy expert argues that as the US dismantles its global hegemony, China currently lacks the will and capacity to assume global dominance. Beijing is instead pursuing a strategy based on sovereign equality and multilateralism.

As the US voluntarily dismantles its global hegemony, China has neither the will nor the capacity to fill the role, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert has argued. Beijing was forging an alternative path rooted in sovereign equality and multilateralism, rather than a quest for global dominance, said Da Wei, director of Tsinghua University’s Centre for International Security and Strategy. “I believe America’s global institutional hegemony is coming to an end,” Da told a public seminar at...