Historically, neither Russia or China have a record of expansionism. . In the end, the NATO-led Cold War managed to dismantle the Soviet Union by ‘buying’ some corrupt Soviet leaders, so that the new Russia, whose socialist system just was made to collapse, unprepared with legislation..…

GT: What do you think is the biggest difference between current China-US relations and US-Soviet Union relations during the Cold War? ..…

The source of that authority can be confluence of church, monarchy and the military, or Leninist demand for deference to single ruling party, as it was in Soviet Union and still is in People's Republic of China. ..…

This allowed new players to come onto the geopolitical stage who had been asking for their space as Russia and China the first in the territories of the former Soviet Union and the second in the Pacific and Central Asia, first with regional pretensions and nowadays, with clearly global..…

The alliance was first proposed by Saudi Arabia back in 2017 in a bid to counter Iran as well as Russia and China, according to a classified White House document reviewed by Reuters last year. . ..…