Friday, December 31, 2021

ASEAN and the New Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific

Manipulating the Climate: What Are the Geopolitical Risks?

Why Soviet Union Invaded Afghanistan

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

India’s Afghan and AUKUS Dilemmas

India’s Afghan and AUKUS Dilemmas | RSIS

The Man Behind Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy

The Man Behind Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy: The daunting task of keeping up with Xi Jinping’s foreign policy ambitions fell to Wang Yi. Born in Beijing in 1953, the same year as Xi, Wang also spent a good chunk of his adolescence as a “sent down” youth during the Cultural Revolution, when he spent eight years laboring on a farm in the northeast. Always a harder worker than others, Wang taught himself literature and history, a former classmate told the Christian Science Monitor. He was “quite open minded. He did not just accept what he was told,” the classmate remembered.

To Counter Russia and China, Make ‘Spheres of Influence’ Great Again

To Counter Russia and China, Make ‘Spheres of Influence’ Great Again: Much like the 1945 Yalta Agreement, a global sphere of influence between the United States, Russia, and China might have similar success for the entire world. There is an increasing threat of a two-fr