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Driven by its sense of centrality, the Central Kingdom has rediscovered its greatness. In what is truly a transformative process, China has joined the USA as a “careful” producer of global governance and shaper of the international system, marking the end of the unipolar moment. According to the prevailing wisdom, the future global order will be ultimately centred on the systemic and strategic interaction between these two powers.
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Aliberti, M. (2015). Epilogue: Enabling a New World Order. In: When China Goes to the Moon.... Studies in Space Policy, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19473-8_8
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