![]() The end of that long era happens to have coincided with the end of the brief "unipolar moment" of unchallenged US ascendancy in the society of states, and that change has attracted rather more analysis so far. They have regarded the voyages of that great navigator, along with those of Magellan and Columbus, as beginning the era of Western ascendancy over Asia, an ascendancy which lasted 500 years, from the end of the fifteenth to the end of the twentieth century. For we have as a nation just entered what Indian scholars have long been calling "the end of the Vasco da Gama era". Not one dreamed up by some politician, but one created by the unstoppable forces of demographic and economic change. There is a neat symbolism in the fact that Australia has acquired its first Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister at almost the same time it has entered a genuine new world order.
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