Power Shift: US awol from world stage as China tries on global leadership for size

When the UN security council and the G7 group sought to agree a global response to the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts stumbled on the US insistence on describing the threat as distinctively Chinese.

There are other reasons for the lack of collaboration in the face of a global crisis, but the focus on labelling the virus Chinese and blaming China pursued by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, helped ensure there would be no meaningful collective response from the world’s most powerful nations.

For some US allies, the fixation on words at a time when the international order was arguably facing its greatest challenge since the second world war encapsulated the glaring absence of US leadership.

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Moving Into a Chinese-Indian World - by Martin Hutchinson

The IMF has allowed the Chinese renminbi to become part of its  Special Drawing Right from next October, the third largest after the dollar and the euro.

 China and India are both now growing much faster than the West. Their greater populations mean that their output will overwhelm the West’s well before 2100.

Their brutal realism about international economic relations, so similar to the attitudes of Britain in 1815 and the United States in 1915, will ensure their success.

Just as the 19th Century belonged to Britain and the 20th Century to the United States, so the 21st Century will belong to them – with no other obvious claimant to the 22nd.

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