Intro: The changing world order is in a state of flux. With American hegemony on the decline and the middle kingdom’s ambitions on the rise, in the words of Robert D Kaplan - A new cold war has begun ranging from semi conductors to submarines and from blockbusters to lunar explorations. scholars’ take: Mearsheimer blames the liberals in USA for their delusions . Liberals like clinton worked on the idea that economic engaement will ensure peaceful rise of china. They were working on the logic of political modernisation. That is as it modernises it will eventually move towards democracy. Mearsheimer in his book: The tragedy of great power politics had predicted that the rise of china will not be peaceful. Beacuse as per his theory of offensive realism- chinese aim is not to maximise its security(as per waltz’s defensive realism) but to establish its hegemony overthrowing USA. China was only hiding its capability and biding time. Because of huge geographical distance between USA and C...