... Calibrating the contraction of its overseas projection and commitments – some would call it managing the decline of an empire – the US does not fail to note that nowadays half of the world’s merchant tonnage passes through the South China Sea. Therefore, the US will exploit any regional territorial dispute and other frictions to its own security benefit, including the costs sharing of its military presence with the local partners, as to maintain pivotal on the maritime edge of Asia ...
RIAC Experts comment
President Obama has completed his Asian tour and President Putin has visited China. What conclusions can be drawn from the results of these events?
Below are comments by Gleb Ivashentsov, Deputy Director of the Russian Centre for APEC Studies; Dmitry Mosyakov, Head of the Centre for the Study of South East Asia, Australia and ...
... human capital.
Let us go back to the issue of “catching up and overtaking.” Will other big powers, such as Russia or China, be able to catch up with the U.S. and form a “geopolitical triangle”? Of course, these are slightly outdated ... ... the U.S. is to adapt itself to the new realities and get on top of the new trends.
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President Barack Obama and the new
geopolitical reality
Some experts and historians thought that new economic blocs would emerge - one ...
