- Emil Avdaliani
- April 2, 2019
- Paper No. 1129
It is au courant among analysts and scholars to compare modern-day China to early 20th-century Germany, in that it too is a rising power that desires a larger role for itself in world affairs. But a better comparison might be with the United States of the late 19th-early 20th century. The US of that era presented itself as non-interventionist, but it also proclaimed a โmanifest destinyโ to expand its influence.