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David Merkle

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Desk Officer for China (Team Asia and the Pacific), Department European and International Cooperation of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin

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by David Merkle

A New World Order at China’s Behest? Why a Swan Song for the Political West is Premature

Note: This article was originally written in German and published in the Neue Züricher Zeitung on 05.02.2021. It was translated into English for the KAS Regional Programme Australia & the Pacific by Katja Theodorakis (Senior Programme Coordinator Foreign/Security Policy) and John Fitzgerald (KAS Research Intern through the ANU’s Australian National Internship Program ANIP)   _______ In a few years’ time, in retrospective reviews of the ‘year of the pandemic’ 2020, two trends of global political significance will stand out. …

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