It is true that, even after China becomes the world’s largest economy, the average American will be far richer than the average Chinese. It is also true that the US military has a sophistication that China is not yet close to matching. The air is also cleaner in Washington than Beijing – and the burgers are tastier, too. But all of that cannot disguise the fact that China’s rise means that America’s reign as sole superpower is coming to a close. The central geopolitical question of our time is how the two countries deal with the shift.
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