这种认知模式在二十世纪尤为盛行，特别是在两次世界大战之后，美苏取代欧洲占据强势，冷战以及之后美国全球霸主地位的确立，其间许多事件都因国际影响促成。
But China’s rise to global power, I believe, will not, owing to its massive population of 1.2 billion people, which threatens to overstretch the structures of any kind of government system and its decision makers. This is all the more true in times of rapid fundamental change, as is occurring in China now.