Shaped
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Reflecting America’s global leadership after World War II, the West was protected by US hard power and
shaped
by US soft power.
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It is also
shaped
equally by history and culture.
In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is
shaped
by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization-state, rather than as a nation-state.
What is happening is that, very rapidly in historical terms, the world is being driven and shaped, not by the old developed countries, but by the developing world.
And the second implication is that the world will inevitably, as a consequence, become increasingly unfamiliar to us, because it'll be
shaped
by cultures and experiences and histories that we are not really familiar with, or conversant with.
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