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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997) and
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (2012), promoted the concept of a Weimar Triangle – France, Germany and Poland – becoming the major power in a united post-Cold War Europe.
Germany, with the largest economy and biggest population, was to be the major partner; with a residual influence in Africa and the Mediterranean, France would be the second (in
Grand Chessboard he basically compares France to an aged courtesan who must be flattered to keep her complacent); and Poland would be the emergent third power that would keep the Russian barbarian at the gate.
Singapore’s Former U.N. Ambassador Talks Nationalism, Taiwan, and China-U.S. Relations
Kishore Mahbubani
China should carefully manage its rising nationalistic sentiment, particularly among young people, to help create a favorable environment for the country’s development and foreign relations, Singapore’s former United Nations ambassador said in a wide-ranging interview with Caixin.
Kishore Mahbubani, the city-state’s ambassador to the U.N. from 2001-2002, said that “nationalism is a natural consequence of countries becoming stronger and stronger.”
However, “it will be good for the Chinese government to manage this nationalism very carefully,” he said. “Nationalism can evolve into a big angry dragon and must never be seen as unmitigated good, so it’s better to restrain the dragon before it starts breathing fire.”
China Daily, May 10, 2021.
Cheng Enfu is a principal professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, director of the Research Center for Economic and Social Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and president of the World Association for Political Economy. He can be reached at 65344718[at]vip.163.com. Lu Baolin is a professor at the School of Economics, Qufu Normal University.
Neoimperialism is the specific contemporary phase of historical development that features the economic globalization and financialization of monopoly capitalism. The characteristics of neoimperialism can be summed up on the basis of the following five key features. First is the new monopoly of production and circulation. The internationalization of production and circulation, together with the intensified concentration of capital, gives rise to giant multinational monopoly corporations whose wealth is nearly as great as that of whole countries. Second is the new monopol
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President Joe Biden declared “America is back” at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 19 . What also is back is U.S.-led intervention in Syria. On Feb. 25, Biden authorized U.S military to initiate airstrikes on Iranian-supported militia groups in Syria.
Biden’s decision of taking military action in Syria raises concerns regarding human rights and a new wave of the refugee crisis. To prevent Biden’s power abuses, the American people should pay close attention to Syria and its nearby regions while being more attentive to other countries.
In 2011, the Syrian Civil War broke out and former President Barack Obama decided to intervene in 2014. Nonetheless, after the inauguration of former President Donald Trump, the presence of the United States in Syria gradually reduced and Trump ordered to withdraw U.S. troops in Syria in 2019.