... terms, the challenge is to square the circle: move towards the equivalent of the Stalin-Mao 30-year treaty of Friendship and Cooperation while reshaping it in a manner explicable and acceptable to India.
The interlock of the U.S.–NATO–EU in the West and the AUKUS in the East can only be balanced off by an alternative Eurasian community or system, with its structures and superstructures, embracing Russia and China, and constituting an alternative antipode or counterpoint.
Sovereignty & Self-determination
Some problems cannot be avoided but must be grappled with instead. These problems exist in the domains of the conceptual and of political strategy. Grappling ...
... 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 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” in particular.
Today, there is no peace movement or antiwar movement in the West. This is because the Eurasian core states are caught in an ideological pincer today:...
... driving force behind it has been the rise of non-Western powers that are pushing the West toward a closer political and economic union.
At the same time, Russian-Chinese... ... reminiscent of the decades of the Cold War. Needless to say, the United States and China appear to be the centers of gravity for this new polarization of global politics... ... on ‘objective’ realities. It is often argued that the Atlantic and the Eurasian civilizations have opposed each other from the days immemorial, that ‘land’...