OPINION / VIEWPOINT
By Zhang Tengjun Published: Apr 06, 2021 05:01 PM
US President Joe Biden answers questions from the media after signing a Made in America Executive Order in the South Court Auditorium at the White House on January 25, 2021 in Washington.Photo: AFP
The late renowned US geopolitical thinker Zbigniew Brzezinski made an insightful and exclusive analysis of geopolitical patterns in his famous book
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.
Many of his judgments still have vitality today. Brzezinski pointed out in his book that Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an antihegemonic coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. His warnings against US diplomacy have once again garnered much attention in recent days.
BY MAX PARRY
Digital billboard in Yerevan (Armenia) displaying images of the war.
In the final week of September, an Azerbaijani offensive renewed hostilities in the perennial armed conflict and territorial dispute in the South Caucasus between Armenia and its neighbor over the Nagorno-Karabakh (“Mountainous Karabakh”) region. By October, the clashes had escalated past the state border between Azerbaijan and the internationally-unrecognized Republic of Artsakh which suffered heavy shelling from banned Israeli-made cluster bombs by the Azeris. Meanwhile, Armenia retaliated with strikes in Azerbaijan outside of the contested enclave, with civilian casualties reported on both sides in the deadliest resumption of large scale fighting since the Russian-brokered ceasefire in 1994. Following Baku’s victory recapturing the town of Shusha which had been under Artsakh control since 1992, a new armistice was signed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pas
by Max Parry / December 22nd, 2020
In the final week of September, an Azerbaijani offensive renewed hostilities in the perennial armed conflict and territorial dispute in the South Caucasus between Armenia and its neighbor over the Nagorno-Karabakh (“Mountainous Karabakh”) region. By October, the clashes had escalated past the state border between Azerbaijan and the internationally-unrecognized Republic of Artsakh which suffered heavy shelling from banned Israeli-made cluster bombs by the Azeris. Meanwhile, Armenia retaliated with strikes in Azerbaijan outside of the contested enclave, with civilian casualties reported on both sides in the deadliest resumption of large scale fighting since the Russian-brokered ceasefire in 1994. Following Baku’s victory recapturing the town of Shusha which had been under Artsakh control since 1992, a new armistice was signed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Russian President Vladimir Putin las