The current geopolitical environment thus makes for a very interesting and engrossing battle for spheres of influence between the US and China. It entails a massive struggle to retain or preserve already established ones and the forging of daunting, competing new ones. It also implies the expansion of one sphere of influence at the cost of the other. An intrusion into, or sharing of, a sphere of influence is inconceivable to either belligerent. The arguments begin when one power attempts to encroach upon the geopolitical and geostrategic space claimed solely by the other.

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Is the US-led West’s perceived decline creating that critical and vital strategic space for China to move into regions hitherto considered the exclusive domains of the US and Europe? Is China’s rise in the geopolitical and geoeconomic domains then directly proportional to the US-led West’s relapse, allowing it to fill the geopolitical vacuum thus created, rapidly and smoothly?

This brings into contention the US’ formidable presence in the IPR and its opposition to China’s corresponding ingress into the Western Hemisphere, Latin America in particular. Where does the moral authority or superiority of US foreign policy then stand on this score? What is good for the gander ought to be good for the goose as well. If US presence in the South China Sea/IPR, in what the Chinese consider their own backyard, is justified, then by the same accord so is Chinese presence in the Western Hemisphere. The dichotomy, or blatant contradiction, in this aspect of........

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