Is China a threat to world order? Two analysts explain

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China's aircraft carrier Liaoning sails past a container ship as it enters Hong Kong. © Reuters

MIKIO SUGENO and KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei staff writers

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK -- Historians may look back at the U.S.-China meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, last week as a pivotal moment in geopolitics -- when a rising power and a ruling power sat across the table and debated whose view of international order was right.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is committed to "strengthen the rules-based international order," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. He noted that China's actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan "threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability."

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