Word: multipolar
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America will remain the world’s sole superpower for some time. Nevertheless, the geopolitical landscape is gradually becoming a multipolar environment where China will be a key player. If Beijing tries to attain hegemony in Asia, deterring it will be more complex than simply augmenting our already-enormous defense budget. A promising grand strategy to constrain China’s growing clout might couple offshore balancing—building a partnership of other powers opposed to Chinese dominance—with an effort to counter China’s unique methods of espionage. And while there is nothing...
...European values, but that is not going to repeat everything from A to Z." And Putin's vision for Russia? "I think what is wanted is that Russia is a powerful state," said Peskov, "with a prosperous population, being able to compete with others in a fair play in multipolar world where its voice is heard by others. That...
...THINK AMERICA'S ROLE AS THE SOLE SUPERPOWER IS A PROBLEM? Any community with only one dominant power is always a dangerous one and provokes reactions. That's why I favor a multipolar world, in which Europe obviously has its place. Anyway, the world will not be unipolar. Over the next 50 years, China will become a global power, and the world won't be the same. So it's time to start organizing. Transatlantic solidarity will remain the basis of the world order, in which Europe has its role to play...
...party faithful. "We cannot allow financial power alone to drive the world," she insisted. "The marketplace is not the only law." As for foreign policy, her principle there was simple: "the never extinguished light of the French Revolution," shining with enlightened commitment to human rights and a multipolar world...
...Balancing Washington For putin's policymakers, the U.S. remains the instinctive adversary, the country whose preponderance the Kremlin yearns to balance. Russia, of course, is not alone in seeking that goal; French President Jacques Chirac regularly advocates a "multipolar" world (and compared to many other G-8 leaders, has been markedly uncritical of Putin's record). But the intriguing thing about Putin's policy has been the way in which he has aligned Russian interests with those of another natural rival to the U.S., China. Putin and China's President Hu Jintao meet frequently - five times in the last year...