China Hegemony Research Paper

The twenty-first century has been a time of great advancement for humanity, but also a time of great decline of American influence, as a whole, across the globe. With the world’s once greatest superpower now showing weakness, lying vulnerable, the time is ripe for a rising star to make a grab at achieving the hegemonic status that has lain in the stable hands of the Americans for so long, to pull the rug out from under their feet. As history has shown the transition of a new power into and global supremacy is wrought with violence, uncertainty, and fear - a time of chaos and pointless bloodshed. China’s attempt to subvert the American hegemony and place itself at the center of world affairs are the greatest threat to world peace in our century …show more content…
America’s effort in foreign policy of maintaining a strong network of allies while playing its enemies off against one another has served it well in the past and into the present in maintaining their position. However, now China, a nation that was generally docile when conversing the international stage, has begun to implement a new strategy to combat the American influence. While presiding over Asia, thus securing their backyard, while also heeding the words of Sun Tzu, “fighting where their enemy isn’t,”by capitalizing on extending their own influence into regions the Americans have neglected. Sun Tzu often warns the reader throughout his treatise, “do not besiege walled cities” - China is in the process of building their own impenetrable diplomatic wall of regional allies. Whether that be supporting the Pakistani’s, to refusing to chide the irresponsible North Koreans, China makes its intentions to secure its borders with friendly allies well known, and they are blatantly obvious on how they do it. They are using something they can disperse reliably, while the Americans can’t - money. Using the their immense wealth China can afford to buy the loyalties of the states that are on their doorsteps through lucrative trade deals and cash injections, even if that state has been a longtime US ally. For instance, we’ve recently seen the …show more content…
What is certain though is that conflict is coming and, more likely than not, it’s coming soon. Some may terrorism or populism is the greatest threat to world peace, but put that in contrast to a cold or hot war between two diplomatic, economic, and military superpowers, and those concerns barely register on the map. China is the greatest threat to peace in the twenty first century - there’s unlikely to be any danger more immense in our