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This paper argues that COVID-19 is not an aberration as claimed and predicted by some scholars. COVID-19 only aggravated the crises and challenges the US and China are currently facing, it did not cause them. We point out that Francis Fukuyama’s the end of history, Joseph Nye’s American century is not over, and Joseph E. Stiglitz’s the Chinese Century are over-simplified versions of complex ideological and political processes. Alternatively, the paper argues that America is facing three interlinked crises; 1) Legitimacy crisis 2) Economic stagnation 3) Diminishing soft power. China, on the other hand, is facing three eminent challenges: 1) Ideological 2) Political 3) Cultural. We conclude that the world is likely to move towards regionalism and more autocratic rules because of increasing complexity and the rise of ideational politics, not because of COVID-19. In the future, regional (and ideological) blocs like the European Union, OIC, and Shanghai Cooperation Organization are likely to replace the existing global institutions.

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