Un-Diplomatic

Un-Diplomatic

Chinese Hegemony is Not Happening...

...at least not on the terms that we’re used to debating it.

Un-Diplomatic
May 15, 2026
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Harvard realist Stephen Walt just came out with a piece titled, “Chinese Hegemony Might Be Happening.” His argument is more modest and muddled than the title suggests, but the question/fear/hope of “Chinese hegemony” has underpinned everything in how the US has approached China for the last decade and a half.

It’s also something my co-author Mike Brenes…

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