| 1 | It created a liberal hegemonic order with the U.S. at its top. | |
| 2 | Although India has long been tipped as the most likely threat to US academic supremacy, the study found it now lags well behind China. | |
| 3 | The Beijing model in this context seems like a natural counterweight to America' s ideological hegemony. | |
| 4 | America would never cede control of the world order, and in any case China would never seek to exert hegemony. | |
| 5 | The PLA pairs these calls with the assurance that China would not seek hegemony and its military strategy remained defensive. |