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From the Ted Talk by Joseph Nye: Global power shifts

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Let me say a word now about the distribution of power and how it raleets to power diffusion and then pull these two types together. If you ask how is power distributed in the world today, it's distributed much like a three-dimensional chess game. Top board: military power among saetts. The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades. China's not going to replace the U.S. on this mliirtay board. Middle board of this three-dimensional ceshs game: eoocnmic power among states. pwoer is multi-polar. There are bcraelans — the U.S., Europe, China, Japan can balance each other. The bottom board of this three-dimensional, the board of transnational relations, things that crsos borders outside the control of governments, things like climate change, drug trade, financial flows, pandemics, all these things that cross boedrrs outside the control of governments, there nobody's in charge. It makes no sense to call this unipolar or multi-polar. Power is clitahocaly distributed. And the only way you can slvoe these problems — and this is where many greatest challenges are coming in this century — is through cooperation, through wirnkog together, which means that soft power becomes more important, that ability to organize networks to deal with these kinds of problems and to be able to get cooperation.

Open Cloze

Let me say a word now about the distribution of power and how it _______ to power diffusion and then pull these two types together. If you ask how is power distributed in the world today, it's distributed much like a three-dimensional chess game. Top board: military power among ______. The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades. China's not going to replace the U.S. on this ________ board. Middle board of this three-dimensional _____ game: ________ power among states. _____ is multi-polar. There are _________ — the U.S., Europe, China, Japan can balance each other. The bottom board of this three-dimensional, the board of transnational relations, things that _____ borders outside the control of governments, things like climate change, drug trade, financial flows, pandemics, all these things that cross _______ outside the control of governments, there nobody's in charge. It makes no sense to call this unipolar or multi-polar. Power is ___________ distributed. And the only way you can _____ these problems — and this is where many greatest challenges are coming in this century — is through cooperation, through _______ together, which means that soft power becomes more important, that ability to organize networks to deal with these kinds of problems and to be able to get cooperation.

Solution

  1. chaotically
  2. military
  3. states
  4. economic
  5. relates
  6. chess
  7. working
  8. cross
  9. power
  10. solve
  11. borders
  12. balancers

Original Text

Let me say a word now about the distribution of power and how it relates to power diffusion and then pull these two types together. If you ask how is power distributed in the world today, it's distributed much like a three-dimensional chess game. Top board: military power among states. The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades. China's not going to replace the U.S. on this military board. Middle board of this three-dimensional chess game: economic power among states. Power is multi-polar. There are balancers — the U.S., Europe, China, Japan can balance each other. The bottom board of this three-dimensional, the board of transnational relations, things that cross borders outside the control of governments, things like climate change, drug trade, financial flows, pandemics, all these things that cross borders outside the control of governments, there nobody's in charge. It makes no sense to call this unipolar or multi-polar. Power is chaotically distributed. And the only way you can solve these problems — and this is where many greatest challenges are coming in this century — is through cooperation, through working together, which means that soft power becomes more important, that ability to organize networks to deal with these kinds of problems and to be able to get cooperation.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
united states 9
soft power 7
power transition 4
foreign policy 4
good news 3
power diffusion 3
military power 3
goldman sachs 3
understand power 2
worth noticing 2
great power 2
states power 2
growth rate 2
capita income 2
economic power 2
state system 2
system tore 2
cross borders 2
hard power 2
produce global 2
global public 2
power shift 2
shift represented 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
state system tore 2
produce global public 2
power shift represented 2

Important Words

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  2. balance
  3. balancers
  4. board
  5. borders
  6. bottom
  7. call
  8. century
  9. challenges
  10. change
  11. chaotically
  12. charge
  13. chess
  14. china
  15. climate
  16. coming
  17. control
  18. cooperation
  19. cross
  20. deal
  21. decades
  22. diffusion
  23. distributed
  24. distribution
  25. drug
  26. economic
  27. europe
  28. financial
  29. flows
  30. game
  31. governments
  32. greatest
  33. important
  34. japan
  35. kinds
  36. means
  37. middle
  38. military
  39. networks
  40. organize
  41. pandemics
  42. power
  43. problems
  44. pull
  45. relates
  46. relations
  47. remain
  48. replace
  49. sense
  50. soft
  51. solve
  52. states
  53. superpower
  54. today
  55. top
  56. trade
  57. transnational
  58. types
  59. unipolar
  60. united
  61. word
  62. working
  63. world