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The article focuses on confronting relations of China with the U.S. and humanitarianism is for the American brand and Muslims do not yearn for democracy as much as they yearn for dignity and justice. It mentions American foreign policy elite does not like to talk about culture since culture cannot be quantified and hope of understanding foreign affairs. It also mentions computer hacking, espionage, port building and expansion, the movement of navy and fishing fleets, and on all appear coordinated. It reflects on China could weaken internally due to economic upheavals causing its leaders to dial up nationalism as a default option.

In this article the author opines that in today's world, the two nationalism and globalism are complementary. Topics include in the 1920s, when nationalism was authoritarian and the balance of power pernicious, nationalism was a destructive force, and today, all major industrialized nations are democracies and in this kind of world, nationalism is not a destructive force but a democratic check on global elites and institutions, and the U.S. president Donald Trump put the interests of the U.S. first, sparking fears that nationalism would now destroy the liberal international order while the former U.S. president Barack Obama gave up the military playbook altogether, trusting in persistent diplomacy to reset relations with Iran, Russia and China.