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Graham Allison, National Interest: China and Russia: A Strategic Alliance in the Making
Defying the long-held convictions of Western analysts, and against huge structural differences, Beijing and Moscow are drawing closer together to meet what each sees as the “American threat.”
THE YEAR before he died in 2017, one of America’s leading twentieth-century strategic thinkers, Zbigniew Brzezinski, sounded an alarm. In analyzing threats to American security, “the most dangerous scenario,” he warned, would be “a grand coalition of China and Russia…united not by ideology but by complementary grievances.” This coalition “would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the leader and Russia the follower.”
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 14, 2018
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The Afghanistan of Today is Not Yet Ready for Peace -- Chayanika Saxena, The Wire
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UN's former envoy to Somalia is upbeat about its future -- Daniel Pelz, DW
Brexit Britain: Small, boring and stupid -- Ryan Heath, Politico
From Sans Culottes to Gilets Jaunes: Macron’s Marie Antoinette Moment -- Sylvain Cypel, New York Review Of Books
Ukraine-Russia tensions reach Greece’s holy Mount Athos -- Shaun Walker, The Guardian
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The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Washington Is a National-Security Threat -- Amy Zegart and Kevin Childs, NextGov/The Atlantic
Analysis: In democracies’ political chaos, new model emerges -- Niko Price, AP
Collective Rage: Gilets Jaunes in France and elsewhere -- Daniel Woker, The Interpreter
