AFP — World increasingly believes China will become the top superpower: Pew poll

"American exceptionalism" on the way out?

What is developing is a "clash of civilizations" — Western, typified by America, Chinese, Indian, and Islamic. Furthermore, the Western model is bifurcated into East and West, roughly along the traditional lines of Roman and Eastern Orthodox Christianity after the parting of the ways in the eleventh century. Russia is still not part of Europe and sits between the West and China. Key here is control of Central Asian resources.

How this is going to play out in the process of globalization that will occupy stage center for most of this century and probably beyond is unclear. What seems to be clearer as the plot deepens, however, is that the Western model is not going to dominate in the way many previously assumed.

Whether the future will bring a multipolar world or global hegemony by a sole superpower is still to be determined. The US is presently committed to retaining hegemony at all costs.

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World increasingly believes China will become the top superpower: Pew poll

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