Non-Polar World: Expert Assesses Whether China Can Become the New Hegemon

Economist Alexey Kushch explained that we are currently living in a non-polar world, where the old hegemon is already exhausted, while the new one has yet to offer a viable alternative, Politeka reports.
He spoke about this on Ruslan Bortnik’s channel.

“The thing is, it’s very dangerous to describe the current geopolitical situation using the conceptual tools of the 1970s. It’s like trying to explain quantum physics using the terminology of classical mechanics. This leads to a mistake — one that many are making today — because the global continuum has fundamentally changed,” Kushch asserts.

As he explains, the 1970s were characterized by a classic bipolar world, where the Soviet and Western blocs opposed each other, with a layer of neutral countries in between. Today, the expert notes, we are transitioning into a so-called non-polar world.

“A non-polar world means that the old hegemon can no longer perform the functions of global leadership, while the new one is not yet able to take on these functions — in other words, it hasn’t yet formed as a hegemon. So the world is effectively frozen in a kind of limbo or transitional stage between the unipolar world that replaced the bipolar one, and a potential future bipolar world, should a new hegemonic contender emerge — for example, China, if it begins to truly function as an alternative global system,” Kushch explains.

In that case, the expert notes, at some point we could return to a bipolar world — with the U.S. on one side and China on the other. But for now, he argues, China clearly falls short of forming a true alternative even on a conceptual level, which is why we currently find ourselves in a non-polar world, with all the consequences that come with it.

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