the chinese revolution of 1925–27

For Isaacs, this “historical coincidence did not lack its own irony, for the Soviet Union and Communist International he had helped create were abandoning in China the idea of irreconcilable proletarian independence that was Lenin’s richest legacy.” . ... The alliance of..

this week at state: february 1, 2019

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energy imperialism

He identifies many such flashpoints around the world: in the Caspian Sea region, where an energy-rich and resurgent Russia, in sometime alliance with Iran, contends with the U.S.-led West, or in the East China Sea, where boundary disputes between China and Japan revolving around the undersea..

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