The U.S. felt that it needed to reshape European perceptions to revive the “Russian threat”, galvanizing the West under its hegemonic influence
Experts are scrambling to explain why the U.S. prioritized containing Russia over China despite most prior indicators very strongly suggesting that it would prioritize the second scenario. U.S. President Joe Biden largely continued his predecessor Donald Trump’s muscular approach towards the People’s Republic up until around last ...
Russia has only temporarily captured China’s seemingly entrenched role as a major U.S. villain, while the West will fight for the narratives to influence the minds and hearts of the rest of the world
Russia and the world are living through times of change. Russia has started a “special ...
... Treaty and Tokyo’s own Three Non-Nuclear Principles notwithstanding—the country should think about enhancing its security, while refraining from seeing nuclear weapons as a no-go. Abe concluded that the Japanese government has repeatedly highlighted China’s growing military activity, as well as North Korea’s nuclear missile programme, to stress that the only feasible way to contain these threats could be through a joint nuclear mission (
nuclear sharing
) with the United States.
Within NATO, ...
... entered a mammoth trap of its own making—an enormous waste of resources and an inability to achieve its national interests anywhere outside the occupation zone.
Furthermore, Moscow's reliance on Beijing is growing considerably. The People's Republic of China remains the only stable and large external market for Russia and its only source of advanced technologies. But these new conditions made this relationship a deadly poison for the Chinese.
As of now, Russia is gradually turning from an actor into ...
The sanctions signal the strategy of economic eviction and dramatic abandonment of the West’s earlier strategy of a truly globalized capitalist economy, in which Russia and China are stakeholders
For Russia, this moment is even more of a hinge in history than most hinges tend to be. The future of Russia, and indeed that of the world order, are at stake. The global game has turned zero-sum. It has been turned zero-sum by ...
... base.
One such recent project is the Global Gateway initiative launched by the EU at the end of 2021, another that was launched under the auspices of the G7 group is the Build Back Better World (B3W) initiative. Both projects are meant to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in advancing greater connectivity and infrastructure development throughout the global economy. Globalization as a concept is becoming a more competitive field for various regions and countries that are starting ...
... Russia into military action by shielding it from the consequences of Western sanctions, thus
removing
a powerful deterrent. Others have warned against a further spillover, arguing that a U.S.-Russian confrontation over Ukraine might even
encourage
China to pursue military reunification with Taiwan. Such extreme scenarios are unlikely to materialize, but the fact that they are being raised at all makes it necessary to analyze the interests, shared visions, but also limitations behind the emerging ...
... pre-emptive one.
The corrosion of the non-proliferation regime also occurs due to the further spread (or the potential growth) of nuclear technologies, which is an obvious risk inherent in the AUK–U.S. adventurism. The U.S. strategy of a new cold war with China envisages the creeping involvement of India in the anti-Beijing military alliance, which will inevitably spur a nuclear arms race between Delhi and Beijing. Pakistan would be inevitably involved in it. The more the official nuclear powers brace ...
China and Russia are like a whale and an elephant, to put them into one basket of "global autocracies" is a very questionable and misleading generalization, to say the least
On February 4, on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Beijing ...
China’s foreign policy position on the 2022 Kazakhstan unrest seems to have been much the same as with the 2020 Karabakh War, wait to see who emerges victorious, and back the winner
The most credible scenario of the cause of the January Kazakhstan ...
