The unstoppable rise of China has shattered any hopes the United States might have had about putting an end to international "power politics," says US-based bimonthly magazine Foreign Policy.
In a commentary published this month, Stephen M Walt trashes the post-Cold War prediction of the US which foresaw the dawn of an "increasingly democratic, globalized, market-driven, institutionalized, and allegedly benevolent world order."
The bold prediction arose out of the US dominance in a world in which it was the only "great power," the article said, and failed because countries like Russia, China, Iran, Israel and Japan still take issues of power and territory seriously, with the rise of China being one of the major obstacles.
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