“This report is part of a predictable wave of anxiety reaching the same conclusion — that U.S. strategic preeminence faces a serious challenge from China (and to a lesser degree Russia) and can no longer expect to prevail without correcting the bad habits built up during decades of comfortable..…

This reflects a certain strategic culture, the great power mentality (derzhavnost) that has driven Russian leaders from Tsarist times to the present.[77] Such predispositional influences have been strengthened by circumstances — the gathering confrontation between the United States and China, the..…

By the reality of the conflict, This paucity of understanding of the security, economic and patchwork of Shan and Kachin states explains why international actors on the peace process, including West, China and Japan, are frustrated. ..…