title: Sino-Russian Challenges to American Hegemony: Are We Moving Towards a Multipolar World Order?
abstract: The current state of international relations and the global order is characterised by growing conflicts and rivalries between the United States of America, the declining hegemon, and the rising non-Western powers, first and foremost, China and Russia.Russia's "special military operation" to "demilitarise" and "denazify" Ukraine has galvanised and united Western allies against the attack on the international "rules-based" order.Dominated by the US, the West seeks partners and client states to sup