{"id":73406,"date":"2025-08-13T01:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/12\/a-china-led-global-system-alongside-that-of-the-us-is-xi-jinping-ultimate-aim"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:38:04","slug":"a-china-led-global-system-alongside-that-of-the-us-is-xi-jinpings-ultimate-aim-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73406","title":{"rendered":"A China-led global system alongside that of the US is Xi Jinping\u2019s ultimate aim  | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, China has been building an alternative to the US-led order, notes <strong>Andrew J Sinclair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed reading George Magnus\u2019s article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/aug\/11\/peak-china-economy-dominance\">Why Peak China may finally have arrived, 11 August<\/a>). However, focusing on peak economic growth misses the bigger picture and underestimates China in ways that could weaken western policy responses. China\u2019s central goal is national power, and we are far from its peak national power.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese economic miracle has taken place under the US-led global system. China built factories along its coast, filled container ships, and sent its goods to developed markets, effectively plugging into an existing network of shipping routes, ports and railways. However, just as easily as China joined this system, so too can it be forcefully unplugged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/12\/a-china-led-global-system-alongside-that-of-the-us-is-xi-jinping-ultimate-aim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, China has been building an alternative to the US-led order, notes Andrew J SinclairI enjoyed reading George Magnus\u2019s article (Why Peak China may finally have arrived, 11 August). However, focusing on peak economic growth misses the b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,415,233,1980,47,631,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-money","category-shipping-industry","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406\/revisions\/73407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}