Pakistan, Sept. 10 -- Clearly, yet with no surprise, theunfolding events in Washington and Beijing indicate the glaring spectre of a global passing of the torch from the United States to China. While China continues to assert itself both economically and militarily; the United States is intriguingly tasked with maintaining a balance of power in the West hemisphere, East Asia and safeguarding its global dominance, per se. Addressing the European ambassadors' conference in Germany recently, EU High Representative and Vice President Joseph Borrel said: " .if the 21st century turns out to be an Asian century, as the 20th was an American one, the pandemic may well be remembered as the turning point of this process." Obviously, the US role of g...