... Tito was balancing between the two camps and seeking a third road. The (Indian-supported) Sri Lankan slogan of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace arose only because of Admiral Gorshkov’s blue-water power projection.
Realism dictates that the Russia-China equation must move from the extensive to the intensive and make the leap from the quantitative to the qualitative.
US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanaghan’s demarcation of the present struggle as between the “free and repressive world orders” leaves the Eurasian core states exposed to a neoliberal globalist discourse, without a competing ideology or narrative of their own regarding their notions of world order since their unilateral withdrawal from “ideology” in general and “universalist ideology” ...
... any attempt to interfere in their domestic affairs is met with hostility. People in both countries question the stability of the current model of socioeconomic development, and many fear or predict inevitable crises and upheavals in the future.
Historically, relations between India and China have always been less conflict-ridden than, say, the relations between the Islamic and Christian worlds in the west of the Eurasian continent. In a sense, it is fair to speak not only of the economic, cultural and spiritual compatibility of these two ancient civilizations, but also of the fact that these aspects have penetrated the other country and even complement one another....
... between the two visions are possible and likely even inevitable, though in the long term, the two projects are in no way fully compatible. In the end, there can be only one winner, and the loser shall be relegated to the fate of being a redundant historical player in the evolution of the Eurasian continent.
Indo-Pacific, Quad, and Containing China
Andrey Kortunov:
SCO: The Cornerstone Rejected by the Builders of a New Eurasia?
The term Indo-Pacific has entered geopolitics via biogeography, which studies the patterns of geographical distribution and the distribution of animals, plants, and ...
