[OPINION] Going viral: It doesn't matter if nobody believes China

'If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) understands that it cannot master the world, the world can master the CCP and China.'

If the CCP understands that it cannot master the world, the world can master the CCP and China. At the same time, the leader of the free world must decouple itself from the false illusion of a durable Pax Americana. Given the world community’s differing versions of world order, what we now have is aWashington must begin to reimagine national and global security in longer time scales, one where the Chinese have been present for millennia.

Real threats to the free world whether a pandemic or the prospect of war have demonstrated that a bipartisan consensus is possible, and that political polarization can converge towards the center. Given China’s domestic challenges, there is a real chance that eternity will favor freedom, and not socialism and communism with Chinese characteristics.Mark Payumo is an international security analyst.

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