Jeffrey Sachs on Chinas Historic Push for Multipolar World to End U. S. Domination

China is taking an increasingly assertive role in world affairs, helping to broker a restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between Israel and Palestine. China doesn t want the United States to be the preeminent power. It wants to live alongside the United States, says economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and president of the U. N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as adviser to three U. N. secretariesgeneral and currently serves as a sustainable development solutions advocate under SecretaryGeneral António Guterres. His latest article is headlined The Need for a New US Foreign Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1, 500 TV and r