... in the run-up to the presidential election in November. Thus, Washington is focused on maintaining the regional status quo. China has even less reason to welcome such a conflict, in the first place because it would immediately drive global hydrocarbon ... ... Tayyip Erdogan does in Syria and Libya. But repeating the experience of the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions wounded, is now a no-go: Middle Eastern societies have changed too much over the past 40 years, and ...
... withstand it, emerge victorious, and make use of the results of victory.
Ivan Timofeev:
Trump or Harris: Does it Matter for China?
The current state of international relations demonstrates a steady tendency towards the multiplication of deterrence tasks ... ... contradictions. Apparently, we are only at the beginning of an exacerbation. After all, the real fight between the two key rivals—the USA and China—is yet to come. One can argue for a long time about what is the root cause of the increase in deterrence—mistakes ...
... (although the author of these lines has privately expressed this view for many years).
The North initially hoped to complete the unsuccessful “campaign to liberate the South” that started in 1950 (and nearly ended in complete disaster, were it not for China’s intervention). Yet by the 1970s, amid détente between the United States and North Korea’s “patrons”—the Soviet Union and China—Pyongyang came to understand that its hopes of defeating a stronger South Korea, heavily backed by the ...
... willing to contribute to NATO’s activities in the European North.
Anatasia Tolstukhina:
US Technology Policy amid Rivalry with China
Furthermore, the US defense contractors have received a golden shower that they had not seen in many decades. US European ... ... whether it concerns movie productions from Hollywood or the research programs of American universities. The position of the USA in international institutions (especially when it comes to their bureaucracy, which represents a kind of global Deep State) ...
... risk reduction with Moscow and Beijing, albeit with each of them separately, looks very cynical
Relations between Russia and China today are stable and characterized by an elevated level of mutual trust. The rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing takes ... ... Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
There is also a Russian-Chinese agreement on notifications of launches of ballistic missiles and space ...
... countries are no strangers to American betrayal. Over the past couple of decades, they have witnessed
Washington use false accusation as casus belli to attack Iraq,
leave their Kurdish allies at the Turks’ mercy
and
abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban
... ... exceptionalism, a sentiment shared by other countries in the region.
“The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back”
Yuliya Alekseeva:
China in the Mashriq: New Best Friend
While countries of the Middle East resent American betrayal, they at least understand it ...
... Korean nationalist An Jung-geun assassinated Ito Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan, has got a new magnificent Nouveau style terminal modelled after the original 1899 Russian station. Harbin has every reason to position itself as the leading China’s national hub for economic, cultural, educational and human interaction with its northern neighbor.
Remembering WW2 in Asia
One of the items of Vladimir Putin agenda in Harbin was to lay flowers at the memorial to some twelve thousand of Soviet soldiers and officers who died during WW2 liberating Manchuria from the Japanese occupation. The Russian leader specifically noted the careful attitude of the Chinese authorities towards the memory of joint pages of military glory and ...
Beijing is rather reluctant to get deeply involved in intra-regional politics in the Middle East, as this could provoke new tensions with the U.S.
The current escalation in the Middle East has been described by many as a test of influence for China. For example, the media repeatedly suggested that the United States asked China to put pressure on Iran during the latest rounds of escalation, especially after the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Yet, if compared to Qatari,...
... experiments suggested the U.S. would win the war or achieve a most favorable settlement of the conflict in case of their refusal to destroy cities [
2
].
In the time of President Richard Nixon, the U.S. military initiated a new response strategy aimed ... ... defense system in the Asia Pacific calls global strategic stability into question, because it could be used against Russia and China. In 2018, the head of Russian diplomacy insistently
urged
Japan to enter into a dialogue about the U.S. plans to create ...
..., like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced... ... that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international security and global governance.
In the West, they assumed that the future... ... balance of powers shifted in favor of non-Western nations, in particular, in favor of China. This critical shift had to be reflected in the international system, but the...
