Book contents
- Recentering Pacific Asia
- Recentering Pacific Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Author and Commentators
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Cover Map
- Introduction
- 1 Continuities in China’s Pacific Asian Centrality
- 2 Thin Connectivity
- Commentary
- 3 Sharp Connectivity
- Commentary
- 4 Thick Connectivity
- Commentary
- 5 China, Pacific Asia, and Reconfiguring a Multinodal World
- Commentary
- 6 Global Power Rivalry, Pacific Asia, and World Order
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Global Power Rivalry, Pacific Asia, and World Order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2023
- Recentering Pacific Asia
- Recentering Pacific Asia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Author and Commentators
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Cover Map
- Introduction
- 1 Continuities in China’s Pacific Asian Centrality
- 2 Thin Connectivity
- Commentary
- 3 Sharp Connectivity
- Commentary
- 4 Thick Connectivity
- Commentary
- 5 China, Pacific Asia, and Reconfiguring a Multinodal World
- Commentary
- 6 Global Power Rivalry, Pacific Asia, and World Order
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The United States and China are the primary nodes of the multinodal world order. Together they are the middle third of the global economy, with the world’s biggest military budgets. Their parity makes rivalry inevitable because they are one another’s greatest counterpart. But their parity is asymmetric. China’s power relies on its demographic scale and on its Pacific Asian integration, while the US remains the center of the familiar global system that it created and it is the avatar of the developed world. While a Cold War is unlikely, the dangers posed by global rivalry are profound, ranging from nuclear war to failure to cooperate on global problems. The primary nodes also face asymmetric challenges. The US faces the challenge of adjusting to a central but not hegemonic global role. China faces the challenge of domestic tolerance and a mutually beneficial integration of Greater China and, more generally, of Pacific Asia. Beyond the primary nodes, regional reduction of uncertainties can contribute to the stabilization of world order. Cooperation founded on mutual respect is the prerequisite of successful global governance in a post-hegemonic world.
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- Recentering Pacific AsiaRegional China and World Order, pp. 200 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023