In response to a question by a NBC reporter, Chinese foreign ministerWang Yirejected US presidentDonald Trump’s format of a China-United States hegemony. Instead, Wang affirmed China’s anti-hegemony and pro-multipolarity positions.
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“We should not forget there are more than 190 countries on our planet. World history has always been written by many countries together. And the future of humanity will be forged through the collective efforts of all nations.”
Continuing, Wang spoke to how a world would differ from the current US hegemony with its Western conception of arules-based order:
Diversity is the inherent nature of human society and multipolarity is what the international landscape should look like.
University of Chicago professorJohn Mearsheimerstaunchly rejects such diversity and the willingness of a great power to not only accept but trumpet multipolarity. The reality, asserts Mearsheimer, is that “communist China”covets power.
According to the professor, China is fated to struggle to be the top dog in the world order. That is the path the US followed to become an imperialist power; Mearsheimer says China cannot escape such a destiny. This mindset exemplifies geopolitical determinism.
In anonline video interview, Mearsheimer opined,
The United States is a highly aggressive state that runs around the world using its power quite liberally. Why do you think that if China had a powerful military that it wouldn’t do the same thing? The United States just doesn’t want any other power on the planet to be more powerful than it is. I think that any other country on the planet, if it had its druthers, would want to be the most powerful state in the system. And the reason is that the international system is a really dangerous place. It is in many ways a brutal jungle. All you have to do is look at what is happening to the Palestinians. If you were the Palestinians, wouldn’t you want your own state, and wouldn’t you want that your state to be really powerful, so that nobody, in effect, could mess around with you? I think the Chinese are driven by this mentality?
Source: Global Research
