“Abandoning diplomacy for confrontation.....is a dive over a cliff,” - Antonio Guterres, UN Chief

I would have titled this article “ Death by China: A Case for Liberal Democracy ” but because it is not right to blame all the Chinese people for the Corvid-19 mess the world is in and bearing in mind the stereotypes that could bring, I have put the blame where it is supposed to be and that is with the leadership of the state. According to Wikipedia, the Communist Party of China (CPC) is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the second largest political party in the world. The CPC is the sole governing party within mainland China. The Corona virus which was given the name Covid-19 by scientists is said to have originated from Wuhan, a prosperous capital of China’s Hubei province although there have been calls not to refer to it as ‘Wuhan’ or ‘Chinese’ virus to avoid stigmatization. Wuhan has an animal market which is suspected to be the origin of the virus. The virus has symptoms like high fever, dry cough and difficulties in breathin...

A review of Kenneth Waltz's article titled ‘Structural Realism After the Cold War’  It is quite disappointing that Kenneth Waltz in trying to justify the relevance of structural realism after the cold war relies majorly on case studies that formed his thinking on balance of power politics while clearly not explaining why 30 years after the end of the cold war, the world is not really in a hurry to balance America’s power. If Europe is comfortable with America’s hegemony, it has to be because it is a liberal democracy otherwise if China was in that position then Europe would be speaking a different language. However, in his attempt to convince us that the United States is a unipolar power, Waltz chooses the path of fantasy where by “what America wants, America gets” but there is a lot out there to challenge this notion. America did not win the Vietnam war despite their capabilities and after 18 years in Afghanistan, there is no path to victory, Europe has rejected Washington...