... Kissinger understood the critical importance of keeping Eurasia divided better than anyone else did. He was more efficient than any US leader before him in exploiting the growing rifts between Beijing and Moscow back in early 1970s.
Can President-elect Joe Biden repeat Kissinger's success and resurrect the US-China-Russia triangle with the US at the top of it? Of course, almost 50 years have passed since the famous trip of Kissinger to Beijing in July of 1971. The world today is definitely very different ...
... and tariffs. The president considers his decisive policy on the United States’ European allies to be one of the main achievements of his administration, and he has every intention of sticking to it right through to 2024.
If in January the Democrat Joe Biden is in the White House, changes are inevitable on the western front. Of course, the numerous political, economic, and strategic differences between Washington and Brussels won’t just disappear, and certainly there’ll be no return to the good ...
Joe Biden’s victory should not be seen as a sign of inevitable radical changes in domestic and foreign policy
The recent U.S. election has been one of the tensest and most unpredictable in American history. Suffice it to say that, for the first time ...
... Crossroads"
Nonetheless, sophisticated politicians and experts do attempt to paint a more complex picture focusing on both the similarities
and
the differences between America’s two strategic opponents. A short while ago, presidential candidate Joe Biden also said that Russia is currently the USA’s principal threat, while China is America's key competitor.
There is a subtle distinction here. So what exactly is the difference between a competitor and an enemy? A competitor generally plays by ...
... campaign calls “
peace policies
,” which include cutting the military budget by 75%, unilaterally disarming America’s stockpile of nuclear weapons to a minimum credible deterrent, and ending decades of forever war.
Andrey Kortunov:
President Joe Biden and Russia
Hawkins’ devotion to peace translates into a rather sober approach towards Russia. He is calling for a
cybersecurity treaty
with Russia and argues that Americans should reject the
unhealthy obsession with Russiagate
that has been ...
... attempting to predict who will win the November elections. Who will be governing America from the Oval Office in the White House for the next four years? Is it going to be Republican incumbent Donald Trump or Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden? Even today, when the campaign is in the homestretch, few are ready to name the winner confidently.
Discussions on the subject are going on at full throttle in Russia too. Naturally, this is not because Russia wants to influence the outcome ...
... a convenient scapegoat; making Beijing responsible for COVID-19 was like pouring oil on already burning US-China fire.
Can we expect a radical shift of the US approach to China after the November elections? Unfortunately, this is not very likely. If Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump in the White House, there will be a clear change in US foreign policy style and rhetoric, but much less in its fundamental goals and aspirations. President Biden might be more inclined to reach tactical truces with Beijing ...
... these three and a half years, and it is precisely this divide that has had a devastating effect on U.S.–Russia relations.
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia and the US: Where Will the Growing Alienation Lead to?
Unfortunately, there is every reason to believe that Joe Biden, should he emerge victorious on November 3, will be another weak president. After all, the political, and indeed social, chasm that has split the United States in two will not be overcome by November. Additionally, the incumbent president's ...
... groundwork and cooperation made on issues concerning arms control. That said, one shouldn’t expect there to be a complete detente or for his administration to abruptly lift sanctions on Russia. That will not be inside a fortune cookie any time soon.
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Photo by Lorie Shaull CC BY-SA 2.0
Former Vice President Joe Biden is a man who needs no introduction. As someone who has been in the political limelight ever since limelights were invented, Biden has long developed and made known ...