Japan, Taiwan, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the U.S. What country in this list is not the same as the rest?
Unlike the rest, Taiwan is not a UN member because the PRC threatens other countries with diminished trade ties should they recognize this successfully democratizing society, which, to draw a very rough comparison, is as different from the PRC as Canada is different from the USA.
There is no good that comes out of Pax Americana only death and destruction. The world would be a far better place if the US did not have bases in all parts of the world.
I wish for multilateralism to strengthen and become the norm, with no hegemons or aspiring hegemons, either global, like the US, or regional, like the PRC. Competing hegemons practically need each other as enemies in order to justify their own pathological reasons for being hegemonic. History provides more than enough evidence, still amassing daily, that large powers playing the game of empire leads only to misery. We especially don’t need ‘Great Games’ being played in the 21st century, when there are other pressing current and looming problems in need of attention, for example adequate fresh water and nutrition for all.
I don’t call myself Christian but I like the spirit of Isaiah 2:4, the namesake of Project Ploughshares.
"God shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more.”