The Rise of China Impacts on Geo-Politics and New World Order

Abstract

Whenever there is an emergence of a new power on the global stage, it challenges the status quo and the existing world order and tries to impose its own ethos on the world. Balance of power shifts from uni-polar to bi-polar or from bi-polar to multi-polar. The main concern that arises is about how to manage that country's rise. Usually, existing powers try to curtail emerging powers. The acronym described for this is the "Thucydides Trap" by American professor Graham Alison who tells us that 'throughout history we find 16 examples where the emergence of new powers has questioned the authority of existing powers and out of those 16, 12 went for war and only 4 managed to escape the trap.