U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared in his speech on September 13 at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) that the end of the post-Cold War order was at hand. Making specific reference to U.S. strategic competition with China, and moreover accusing China of threatening Western democracy with its growing clout, Blinken claimed, “Decades of relative geopolitical stability have given way to an intensifying competition with authoritarian powers, revisionist powers.”