An atomic race is underway, unintentionally triggered by the US’ sudden plans to shrink its international commitments. No one will win. Perhaps a new political fabric is being woven. US allies in Asia fear losing their nuclear umbrella because US President Donald Trump suggested some global disengagement. Without the umbrella, as seen with Ukraine, a […]
Group thinking, social media, and esoteric information converge in the West and China, but Beijing might do it better. The risk of autocracy is in the control of information. It could stifle it all, as the freedom of thought generated modernity. It may look like something that happened in Rome. For two decades, Italian politics […]
The United States may want to drive a wedge between Russia and China, but lack of coordination is opening fissures with its allies. Thus, the US might achieve little or no results while Moscow gains much more political space. While US President Donald Trump is talking to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, he’s also engaging […]
Diplomacy is in full gear, seeking a pause to wars and tussles. Russia and China may not trust the US, but all may need a truce; it might be fragile. Beijing is trying to get out of a corner. In the game of friendship and suspicion among the grand capitals of the Eurasian landmass—Moscow, Beijing, […]
Perhaps the US is looking at things from the wrong angle. Why save Moscow from a self-destructive fight? As a percentage of GDP, the war is far more costly for Russia than for the US or the EU. The US may seek peace in Ukraine to save resources, convince Russia to break with Beijing, focus […]
The US has no problem bigger than China’s challenge, yet Beijing is ready for drawn-out friction, so the US may need a long-term strategy. On March 8, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post opined that the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed that America is leading a retreat […]
The tension between Trump and Zelensky at the White House may be not just a spat but a display of a serious strategic American fissure in how to deal with Russia and China. In early January 2020, as soon as the news of Covid from China spread and Beijing ordered a lockdown on several cities, […]
