"Just about everything has changed since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC 10 years ago, writes Philip Stephens. The contours of the geopolitical and economic landscapes have been redrawn. The curious thing is how little the changes owe to 9/11."Osama bin Laden grabbed a decade's worth of headlines, but the future was being written in Beijing, Delhi, Rio and beyond. The world has indeed been turned upside down, but Afghanistan, Iraq and the badlands of Waziristan have been a smokescreen, obscuring the bigger story of the past decade.
"The changes that have mattered have been in the rising states of Asia and Latin America. Ten years on, the strategic challenge to the US comes from the rapid reallocation of power. The global order no longer belongs to the west."
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