"The Fate of the China-Russia Alliance" Topic

"Even as Democrats bash the Republicans for being too soft on the Kremlin, the Republicans are inclined to point out that the Obama administration was far too accommodating of China. After all, President Barack Obama prioritized the climate change issue that necessitated a high degree of cooperation with Beijing. Yet in today's toxic partisan warfare, a winning electoral strategy will be to declare the political opponent as insufficiently xenophobic and thus lacking "true" patriotism.

These days, many people in the Washington foreign policy establishment seem to agree that most of the world's problems can be put down to either Beijing's purported insistence on building a new, nefarious world order comprising "all under heaven," or Moscow's wily attempts to spread its tentacles everywhere from Madagascar to Libya and possibly even America. Thus, Russian "stooges" and Chinese "useful idiots" are lingering around every corner, so it seems. Even those arguing against a conflict with Iran may find the great-power competition concept useful to the extent that yet another war in the Middle East could dangerously distract the United States from the "main event" in either East Asia or in Eastern Europe…"
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