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Strategic Competition in a Globalised World

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Abstract

This chapter records the maturation of mutually-aimed US and Chinese warlike preparations under the Barack Obama and Xi Jinping leaderships. Powered by America’s determined efforts to perpetuate systemic primacy and China’s vow to extend its strategic autonomy, the consolidation of US-led coalition-building and Beijing’s efforts at a potential military ‘break-out’, demonstrated the capacity of the maritime, space and cyber realms to fuel competition, and the ambiguous outcomes of North Korea’s disruptive challenges. The chapter reveals the conflicted duality of robust pursuits of primacy-vs.-parity on the one hand, and high-level diplomacy as an instrument of non-violently crafting a transitional equilibrium on the other. It points to fluidity at the systemic core triggering uncertainty as secondary powers ‘hedge-and-engage’, lubricating strategic dynamics to dangerous levels.

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