I think «Pax Americana» officially ended in March 18, 2021, at Anchorage, Alaska, when Blinken and Sullivan were preening about rules-based international order and moralizing on HK/Xinjiang/Tibet, and got hit with this. It wasn't received very seriously at the time.
very interesting in retrospect The perception of dominance was so strong asia.nikkei.com/politics/inter…
