Stephen Walt suggests that the U.S. "should take Xi up on his stated preference for multilateral engagement and use America’s vastly larger array of allies and partners to pursue favorable outcomes within various multilateral forums." Though encouraging the possibility of mutually beneficial cooperation, he argues that "competition between the two largest powers is to a considerable extent hardwired into the emerging structure of the international system."[49] According to former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "“[t]he Chinese will [initially] want to share this century as co-equals with the U.S.” but have the "intention to be the greatest power in the world" eventually."[3]