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Home / China / China’s diplomatic wins rise from America’s losses
China, Asia

March 30, 2023

China’s diplomatic wins rise from America’s losses

By Christopher McCallion

China’s diplomatic maneuvers over the past weeks have produced all sorts of alarm among members of the Washington foreign policy establishment and media that America’s influence is being supplanted in favor of a new and hostile “world order.”

The failure to see current events in balance-of-power terms goes a long way toward explaining how this situation has come about in the first place.

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