Hauge: US narrative war on China

Jostein Hauge: The double standards at play expose not a principled defence of “global order” but a defence of hierarchy, with the US at its apex. The patterns examined in this essay suggest that much of the current discourse is less about defending universal principles of “global order” than about preserving a particular hierarchy. When China pursues state-led development, it’s characterised as unfair competition; when it seeks technological self-sufficiency, it’s framed as aggression; when it expands its global economic presence, it’s depicted as domination. Yet these are precisely the strategies that virtually every successful industrialised country has employed…