The Armistice Illusion: Why Xi Jinping’s and Trump’s Smiles Won’t Cancel the Two Superpowers’ Struggle
Political expert Victoria Fedosova assessed the results of the meeting between the leaders of the United States and China. Why is it that a temporary respite for peace cannot eliminate the deep economic, military and political imbalances on the planet?
The world community exhaled with relief after a personal meeting of the leaders of the United States and China, but experts urge not to succumb to the euphoria of a beautiful picture. China’s traditional soft power strategy requires sincere implementation of the agreements. The planet is witnessing a classic and inevitable struggle between a rising power and a fading hegemon. This was stated on the air of the program “How to see” by Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts of RUDN University (Russia) Victoria Fedosova.
Viktoria Fedosova: Xi Jinping adheres to a long-standing narrative about a single path of humanity – this is the traditional, already classical Chinese approach of soft power. Of course, he says that relations should be sincere, and if we come to any agreements, then let us, please, fulfill them. Perhaps there is a respite for the whole world [after the meeting of the leaders of the United States and China]. From this point of view, everyone was positive: they looked at this meeting and claped at it, but this does not change the structural imbalances both in the economy and in the military-political sense. And this struggle of a new, rising power and an already established hegemonic power that is trying to survive continues from century to century. At the level of the architecture of international relations, it will exert a dominant influence, no matter how smiles accompany mutual encounters.”.
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