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Hegemony or balance of power? What the wars of ancient China teach us

South China Morning Post 18 July 2026 5h ago
Hegemony or balance of power? What the wars of ancient China teach us
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The historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote one of the most powerful openings of any book. “In the state of nature which Hobbes imagined, violence was the only law, and life was ‘nasty brutish and short’,” he wrote in The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918. “Though individuals never lived in this state of nature, the Great Powers of Europe have always done so. Sovereign states have distinguished Euro
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