How the collapse of ‘Chimerica’ will affect South Asia

There is no doubt that the momentous change that is taking place in the global political and economic structures will profoundly affect the countries of the South Asian subcontinent, in particular Pakistan. The most significant aspect of this change is the collapse of the marriage between the United States and China — a union, the historian Niall Ferguson and the economist Moritz Schluarick once called “Chimerica”.They saw the two countries with interests so intertwined that a new term was needed to refer to them. Chimerica was the term they coined.