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8. Global COVID-19 Crisis, the Biden Era—A Post-Trump World?

Author : Nicolai S. Mladenov

Published in: China's Rise to Power in the Global Order

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The final chapter addresses the current global critical dilemma of the post-COVID-19 world. The discussion examines the hypothetical Chinese options for a new re-Globalization processes in the context of the troubled U.S.-China great power competition adversarial relations, and the third parties’ picking side conundrums in that geopolitical equation. In conclusion, an attempt for viable and convincing answers to the four-folded research questions put forward at the outset of the book, including how president-elect Joe Biden’s future China policies may relate to the topic of the work, are being kindly offered to the reader.

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Footnotes
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2
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4
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5
Ibid.
 
6
Xi Jinping, “Jointly Shoulder Responsibility of Our Times, Promote Global Growth”, full text of keynote speech at World Economic Forum, Davos, January 17, 2017, at https://​america.​cgtn.​com/​2017/​01/​17/​full-text-of-xi-jinping-keynote-at-the-world-economic-forum.
 
7
David Shambaugh, “Dusting Off Cold War Tools for US-China Competition”, China-US Focus, July 2, 2020, at https://​www.​chinausfocus.​com/​foreign-policy/​dusting-off-cold-war-tools-for-us-china-competition.
 
8
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Ibid.
 
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Ibid.
 
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19
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21
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24
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29
Noah Barkin, “In the Post-Pandemic Cold War, America Is Losing Europe”, Foreign Policy, May 19, 2020, at https://​foreignpolicy.​com/​2020/​05/​19/​coronavirus-pandemic-europe-opinion-polls-united-states-china-losing/​.
 
30
Ted Galen Carpenter, “U.S. Leads a Coalition of One against China”, CATO Institute, June 16, 2020, at https://​www.​cato.​org/​publications/​commentary/​us-leads-coalition-one-against-china.
 
31
Ibid.
 
32
See, Liu Ruonan, Liu Feng, “Contending Ideas on China’s Non-Alliance Strategy”, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, May 2017.
 
33
“Xi Calls for Overall National Security Outlook”, Xinhua, February 18, 2017.
 
34
See, “China’s Banking System Overtakes the Eurozone as World’s Largest”, Financial Times, at https://​www.​ft.​com/​content/​14f929de-ffc5-11e6-96f8-3700c5664d30.
 
37
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., After the Liberal International Order, Project Syndicate, July 6, 2020, at https://​www.​project-syndicate.​org/​commentary/​biden-must-replace-liberal-international-order-by-joseph-s-nye-2020-07.
 
38
Ibid.
 
39
Ibid.
 
40
Stephen M. Walt, “Everyone Misunderstands the Reason for the U.S.-China Cold War”, Foreign Policy, June 30, 2020, at https://​foreignpolicy.​com/​2020/​06/​30/​china-united-states-new-cold-war-foreign-policy/​.
 
Metadata
Title
Global COVID-19 Crisis, the Biden Era—A Post-Trump World?
Author
Nicolai S. Mladenov
Copyright Year
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66452-7_8