The Cold War experience suggests that stabilizing even an intense rivalry is possible if both sides perceive such a process as important or vital to broader interests.
Targeting allies and manufacturing foes is the last card available to the Empire of Chaos.
The number one enemy of the United States of America under Donald Trump’s Republican presidency is undoubtedly China.
So history ruled that no conqueror coming from the West would traverse the Pamirs; that happened with Alexander the Great, and that happened with Islam. But that may well happen with Timur Trump, Conqueror of China.
Are China-Russia – and a great deal of the Global Majority – really ready? Call it an auspicious vow.
The old comfortable world is not coming back. The young – if anything – are much more radical.
China is not worried; the tech expectation is that they won’t need anything from the US in the spectrum of 2 to 3 years.
Putin remains focussed on achieving a new Europe-wide security architecture, writes Alastair Crooke.
