@atomicpoet NYT Chief Washington correspondent, David Sanger recently published a book, New Cold Wars, in which he discusses the troubling implications of a China-Russia pact. In his telling so much of the underlying motivations for many of the things we've done is to impede this alliance from happening going back to Richard Nixon opening up economic ties to China being much less an economic move than it was a geopolitical move to impede a China-Soviet relationship from solidifying.
@sysop408 At the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, I said that the PRC would be the winner of it all—and they didn’t even need to fire a shot. Definitely, if any pact gets formalized, Russia will be the junior partner.
This is one of the few recent circumstances where Chinese soft power wins big time.
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