Chinese leaders, especially current paramount leader, Xi Jinping, constantly refer to ‘changes unseen in a Century’, implying that the decline of the West-promoted ‘rules based order’ is inevitable, and that a new Chinese-promoted world order is set to prevail. Implicit also is that a Chinese-driven world is better suited to a world defined by disorder, asymmetry and fragmentation.
‘Changes unseen in a Century’ is one of the underlying principles of ‘Xi Jinping Thought’. This presupposes that the struggle for future dominance revolves around not merely military security but also technological, cultural, as also biological aspects, and that given China’s rise, accelerated by technology and shaped by its economic strength and demographic potential, its success is inevitable.
