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Ben Scott is director, Australia's security and the rules-based order project at the Lowy Institute. Unlike previous great power contests, competition between the U.S. and China is being waged through, and over the content of, international rules. The winners of the First World War sought to reorder the world in the form of the League of Nations. They did so again after the Second World War, although more inclusively, by establishing the United Nations. Something similar happened after the Cold War, as the "Washington Consensus" expanded across the globe. Neither China nor the U.S. is looking to reorder the world...
