In Asia, economic strife between the US and China spills over into military conflict, with increasingly frequent naval clashes in the South China Sea threatening to erupt into a full-scale war. Many years later, Merkel, who has withdrawn from politics and become a recluse, is asked whether she thinks that she should have done anything differently during the euro crisis.  Unfortunately, her answer comes too late to change the course of history.
Il Medio Oriente arabo fa una svolta decisiva verso gli stati islamici autoritari, mentre in Asia, il contrasto economico tra Cina e Stati Uniti si tramuta in conflitto militare con scontri navali sempre più frequenti nel Mar Cinese Meridionale minacciando di trasformarsi in una guerra su vasta scala.