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The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosperous, peaceful nation working together as equals with all other nations, or it can double down on its continuation as a bankrupt, violent empire seeking continued control over all other nations. 

My interlocutor is called a “hawk” in the West. But in essence, he is proposing offensive realism: to save the world through the threat of force before a major war breaks out.

One of the main goals of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s trip to China is to strengthen economic relations with the world’s second-largest economy and Spain’s main trading partner outside the European Union, amid the trade wars that China and the EU have been waging in recent months.