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Mutually Assured Madness?
Chandran Nair explores the global stakes of U.S.-China rivalry and argues that China may have a clearer vision for the future world order.
We live at a moment when everything we thought we could rely on to understand our world seems to be becoming unglued. Whether it's “uncharted waters” or the “break up of global order” or “the end of the American century,” at the least we are entering a period of change and chaos unlike anything that most of us have experienced in our lifetimes.
Whatever emerges is likely to be shaped in important ways by the evolving…
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