US and Western perception of leadership is the understanding of the concept of ārepresentation.ā It is different in China.
The 1970s Afghan war, the fall of the USSR, and China's development pulling along Asia reopened the Central Asia route that was blocked since the 15th century for the Turkish control of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Thus, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) put a conscious political hat on an objective trend.
Geographically this makes the American continent no longer the natural center of gravity that it had been for the past centuries. The US and the American continent need a conscious strategy to regain its centrality. This enhances the difficulties of the "America First" policy.
Moreover, this brings back the Mediterranean Sea's centrality, a long corridor between all continents, eventually ending up in America through Gibraltar.
The world thus can no longer be seen in pieces but needs a new political and strategic centrality. This must also start by recognizing that the US is a superpower but not a
total power that gets its bidding(World is now multipolar not a unipolar ). The US needs new long-term thinking and gain global support that doesn't come by
fiat.
The United States is no longer in its prime position like it was after the Second World War, due to the recent economic recession,COVID, the demand of the people, the waste of blood and resources in unnecessary wars, the rise of China and the diffusion of power and technology. Chinaās emergence as a superpower can be a normal process for Asia. Asian countries can benefit from China in a number of ways. However, the competition and rivalry between great powers in Asia can complicate the emergence of China as a true superpower.In that world, China had Tibet as a buffer state between itself and India. Now, by fully absorbing Tibet, China has expanded its borders and thus also its troubles. India, for millennia out of the Chinese world, has become part of Beijingās headaches. India remedy is Pakistan to make china superpower in Asia region, Same like we did it for US make him superpower and then he left with all Mujaheedin issue to us.
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But it is still a unipolar world at least in military terms. The position of the US is unassailable in the military and political sphere.
Moscow and Beijing are regional powers in terms of military and political capital. They cannot project power beyond their borders or regions; so, their influence is limited to certain geographic areas.
In the economic sense, the world is already multipolar. The USA, China, and EU are different poles of this economic universe.
History provides an example. The Industrial Revolution began with the first project on a tramway between Stockton and Darlington in England, in 1813 when Napoleon intended to conquer Europe.
The American Civil War was won by the superior northern industrial and railway system, putting an end to the Great Plains' old world.
China's power projection similarly was built on the railways.
The US needs to upgrade its railways at home, and extend a network crossing the whole new continent from north to south. It needs to move on a plan to connect by rail Europe and Africa from Oslo to Cape Town, and then from there reach out to Asia and India, China's BRI can be integrated if it wants it to be.
ngl they have many great minds but their mass population is ignorant
