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The United States is no longer the global hegemon with a powerful network of alliances that reinforces much of the current rules-based order. Instead, a reunified and resurgent China is on par with, or even more powerful than the US. China's technologies, trade and investment, and values flow through the BRI, define international institutions, and underpin a multipolar but still integrated international system.

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The opinions and sentiments of entire populations will be in play. People's very perceptions are being weaponized. Such tensions could threaten cohesion in many countries. Multicultural societies and democracies will be especially vulnerable.

We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant. The daily news cycle is filled with the consequences. Yet while we see the symptoms everywhere, we do not see the causes.

In statecraft, mental maps matter. Relations between states, competition or cooperation, involve a landscape of the mind. This defines each country's natural 'region' - what is on the map, what is off the map and why.