The era of political multipolarity has arrived, and a security framework based on unilateral dependence is only becoming more inadequate against complex threats.
During the Cold War, the United States occupied the apex of this triangular dynamic, pitting China and the USSR against each other. Today, it is Beijing that occupies that apex.
[T]here is more propaganda, nostalgia, and unsatisfied ideological desire than there is reality behind predictions of a new global order dominated by China.