{"id":199089,"date":"2026-02-03T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/will-china-replace-the-us-on-the-world-stage-podcast-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:11:08","slug":"will-china-replace-the-us-on-the-world-stage-podcast-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/will-china-replace-the-us-on-the-world-stage-podcast-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Will China replace the US on the world stage? \u2013 podcast &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A succession of political leaders have been trooping to Beijing in recent months. Is it an indication of a new world order? <strong>Tania Branigan<\/strong> explains<br \/>Xi Jinping had a busy January. First came the Irish taoiseach, Miche\u00e1l Martin. Then it was Mark Carney of Canada\u2019s turn. He was followed by the Finnish prime minister, the Uruguayan president and then, last week, Keir Starmer.<br \/>But what does this rush to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">China<\/a> mean? The Guardian leader writer Tania Branigan says much of it is to do with Trump. \u201cThere are real opportunities that people see in China \u2013 and at a point where the US looks so erratic, so hostile to people who have traditionally been among its staunchest allies. There is a sense that it just makes sense,\u201d she tells <strong>Helen Pidd<\/strong>.<br \/>Yet, she says, that doesn\u2019t mean that China will necessarily eclipse the US. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s about one superpower replacing another, but I think it is about the end of American hegemony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxPWVBHWDcwWEo0aF9wbkRKdmQyUGZaWmRib3RkV0h1Z1dycTgxM3FWLWZmNDNJXzFGMVAzZ1h4ekNYNzhpMUVIM0xrRGZNOGE5VUJaQk82ZHB2Rl9pMzBaX1dLY0Y4T0pFdDFXV1NVc3d4MkVhR25YQ0lieUl4WWVjV1NJalZaU3VPblpyQ2dvOHNEODFSQ1dkY3VnOWNoc3pfNjFoRldR?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A succession of political leaders have been trooping to Beijing in recent months. Is it an indication of a new world order? Tania Branigan explainsXi Jinping had a busy January. First came the Irish taoiseach, Miche\u00e1l Martin. Then it was Mark Carney of Canada\u2019s turn. He was followed by the Finnish prime minister, the Uruguayan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}