Any time there is a new U.S. president, major powers set
out to test him and lay the groundwork for future bargaining in
potential conflicts. Occasionally, the United States opens the bidding.
Such was the case when Washington, through its new secretary of state,
Antony Blinken, accused Beijing of human rights violations in Xinjiang
and Hong Kong and of various cybercrimes. Beijing responded by calling
Washington an enormous human rights violator, adding that it does not
speak for the world and should not claim to. This is the tone for a
showdown, not for a pleasant introduction.............Russia’s and China’s options are obviously more complicated than what I
lay out here, but they are also hemmed in by these realities. The
meetings held by the U.S. prior to the meeting with China were meant to
remind the Chinese of as much, that it should not overestimate its
strength or underestimate its strategic isolation. Calling Putin a
killer was meant to warn Putin against covert operations, and to let him
know that Washington knows how weak Russia is and doesn’t care what
Russia thinks...........To Read More....
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