China’s Hunger For Raw Materials
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Prioritizing Foreign Agenda Is Mistake For Russia
Judging by the content of state-controlled television, Russia is primarily focused on its foreign agenda. In fact, Russia does not appear to even have a domestic agenda — that is, other than occasional reports that Duma deputies have found something else to prohibit. Read Here – The Moscow Times
Could The ‘Asian Century’ Already Be Petering Out?
The British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm once called the epoch stretching from the French Revolution of 1789 to World War I’s outbreak in 1914 as the “long 19th century.” A little over a decade ago, people began to speculate about an emerging “Asian century,” driven by an unstoppable China and enabled by America’s supposed inevitable […]
The Sino-American Codependency Trap
Increasingly reliant on each other for sustainable economic growth, the United States and China have fallen into a classic codependency trap, bristling at changes in the rules of engagement. The symptoms of this insidious pathology were on clear display during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to America. Little was accomplished, and the path ahead […]
Pakistan: Russia’s New Best Friend?
We may be entering a period in which India’s tighter embrace of the United States brings Russia closer to Pakistan, and Russia’s bolstering of ties with Pakistan brings India closer to the United States. Read Here – The National Interest
Modi’s India Is Moving—But Not Fast Enough To Impress The US, Or Beat China
Interestingly, Modi is in the US at the same time as Chinese president Xi Jinping and is somewhat eclipsed. The US press, which covered Modi’s first visit last year with a mixture of curiosity and enthusiasm, has largely ignored him so far. But that is the nature of the game. Modi is now a known […]
If Not Xi, Who?
If political infighting in the Communist Party were to result in political instability in China, its foreign policy would become less predictable and more governed by appeals to an aggressive nationalism that is already on the rise within the population at large. That would be a bad outcome for the United States and for China’s […]
Xi And His New Model Of Major Country Relationship With U.S.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the world’s two largest economies to read each other’s strategic intentions correctly and manage their differences properly and effectively. As part of his suggestions on building a new model of major-country relationship between China and the United States, Xi also proposed that the two countries unswervingly boost win-win cooperation […]
This Is How China-U.S. Ties Pan Out…
– People’s Daily Online
Hey Xi, Try This On Your U.S. Trip: Visit Detroit
A Detroit trip would highlight the benefits of trade with his country. Not every American will like the idea that China has become crucial to the future of what’s no longer really the Motor City. But it’s easy to make the case that Chinese investment plays a significant part in protecting Detroit from something worse: […]
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