PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE GLOBAL ORDER

Author: Colin I. Bradford, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

China seems to highlight the degree to which the West is seen to have imposed its presumptively universal vakues on the global system in the post-war period, which has been favorable for the exercise of U.S. hegemony. At the same time, the United States interprets China's commitment to forging a multipolar order based on different values and driven by different norms more favorable to non-Western countries as China becoming a leading globakl power in the process.