## Colophon tags:: url:: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece %% title:: A new age of imperialism type:: [[clipped-note]] author:: [[@thehindu.com]] %% ## Notes > A new age of imperialism — [view in context](https://hyp.is/cvVAAPJ4Ee-ggg-cAmHonQ/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) ⬆️ date:: [[2025-02-24]] > In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Gradually and then suddenly,” he says. So, too, perhaps with the rules-based international order that has governed relations between member states, after the dizzying first weeks of the second Trump presidency. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/jXVJKvJ4Ee-4XGfAwdVdgw/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) ⬆️ Quite the opening. > The imposition of a victor’s peace was avoided by insisting on the sovereign equality of all states in a rules-based order. Great power rivalries would be managed by a system of collective security and economic integration. In reality, however, the 1945 Yalta Conference implicitly accepted spheres of influence for the Soviet Union in eastern Europe and, by extension, for the U.K. and the U.S. in the rest of Europe. This was the price for Stalin’s agreement to fight with the Allies against Japan. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/zj5B0vJ4Ee-uvnsO6maK1w/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) > The U.S., the most powerful nation, is behaving like a declining power, pursuing a nationalist foreign policy, seeking to expand its influence and borders within its hemisphere, and promoting its economic and mercantilist interests. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/LF029vJ5Ee-M1c9dd5Dvbg/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) > The meeting between American and Russian officials at Riyadh may not have been a Yalta moment, but the parallels are strong. The main difference is that this is not a victor’s peace, but a sell-out from Ukraine’s former backer. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/UfBK1PJ5Ee-aNFdEqWN2sw/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) > The world is being divided into spheres of influence. The U.S. will exert power on its own hemisphere, and perhaps on West Asia. By repeating Mr. Putin’s lines on Ukraine and NATO expansion, Mr. Trump has effectively handed over Europe to Russia, leaving Mr. Putin free to pursue his revanchist claims on Ukraine and recreate imperial Russia’s lost glory. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/XLt2vvJ5Ee-mP5clja2AYw/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) > America’s retreat leaves China free to consider moving on its claims to Taiwan. India would do well to remember that China has never accepted the McMahon Line. Suddenly, along with the world order, our neighbourhood too is starting to look more insecure. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/bm1PpPJ5Ee-wPafqRFCwVQ/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) > America’s retreat leaves China free to consider moving on its claims to Taiwan. India would do well to remember that China has never accepted the McMahon Line. Suddenly, along with the world order, our neighbourhood too is starting to look more insecure. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/djihhPJ5Ee-83TsMCbiICQ/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece) > Priyanjali Malik — [view in context](https://hyp.is/dzM0CvJ5Ee---H_IqfsvGQ/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-new-age-of-imperialism/article69254763.ece)