摘要
We are amid a great transition that challenges our deepest assumptions.The world economy is decoupling as the West tries to isolate two of the world’s largest political communities.The global system is said to be reverting to multipolarity.Multipolarity alone is not new.Before World WarⅡit existed between European empires.What is new,and terrifying to certain quarters,welcomed in others,isn’t the end of unipolarity per se,but of hierarchy.