"As long as we don't make any strategic blunders, China's modernization process will not be hampered by the US, and China may even play a bigger role in the construction of the new world order" - according to Prof. Zheng Yongnian, Ukraine reflects the changing world order.
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The influential political scientist of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), believes that the war in Ukraine has shown the US and the West that their main threat is Putin and Russia, not China.
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Zheng explains how we got here, and how, in his opinion, the new world order has been forming since the end of the Cold War, and it will eventually replace the current hegemonic US-led order with a more decentralized order led by regional major powers.
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"With no superpowers, only major powers and regional powers, the new intn'l order in the making will reflect a greater distribution of wealth, power, and cultural authority. The liberal ideology of the West will endure, but it will no longer dominate the international order.
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"For China, the war in Ukraine has accelerated the ongoing great changes that have not been seen in a century. The international situation is perilous, and we must analyze new changes and trends in major powers' interactions calmly and rationally, without sentimentality,
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"because any emotional impulse could lead to destructive strategic blunders. But one thing is clear:
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"The reason a major power is a major power, or at least considered one, is not because of its ability to challenge the old order, much less conduct war, but rather because of its responsibility and ability to promote and maintain international peace."
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