Financial Times casts US–China rivalry as a new Great Game
The paper says forces beyond either power’s control may shape the contest’s outcome, but the supplied material offers no examples.
The Financial Times frames the US–China power struggle as a modern version of the “Great Game”, the 19th-century contest between Britain and Russia. Its central point is that the outcome may hinge on forces neither Washington nor Beijing controls.
The comparison puts the rivalry in a broader historical frame, but the available source material is limited to a headline and standfirst. It does not set out the reasoning behind the analogy or identify the external forces at play.
Nor does the material define what it would mean for either power to “prevail”. The claim is presented as a possibility, rather than a conclusion about the contest’s likely outcome.
