China has been able to soot in partnership with america, expand exactly as it wishes. But now resistance is beginning to china from the west and europe. This could put a danger at the real danger that china isn't expandingas it was. It's not just a story of China getting bigger but also about how we get there.
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of two seminal recent books on the shifting geopolitics of the world: The Silk Roads and its follow-up, The New Silk Roads. He speaks to fellow historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore at the Cliveden Literary Festival about how we may be currently witnessing the end of a historical era amid the emergence of a brand new one.
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