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Opinion

China's unrivaled economic power will define Asia's political future

Fading external ties will not matter all that much

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A staff member looks at a robot at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2020: China is emerging as the primary technological innovator and supplier.   © Reuters

William Bratton is author of "China's Rise, Asia's Decline." He was previously head of equity research, Asia-Pacific, at HSBC.

Much of the current Western debate on the future of Asian geopolitics suffers from three major limitations.

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