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In this essay we will examine two aspects of the same issue: the strategic partnership between Russia and China which is fast becoming a foreign policy, commercial and military alliance.... Meanwhile, our International Relations experts, who are generalists by definition, lack the in-depth knowledge of Russia to say something serious and valuable for policy formulation. The whole field of area studies has atrophied in the United States over the past 20 years, with actual knowledge of history, languages, cultures being largely scuttled in favor of numerical skills that will provide sure employment in banks and NGOs upon graduation. The diplomas have been systematically depreciated. The result of the foregoing is that there are very few academics who can put the Russian Chinese
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: China, Russia
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In this essay we will examine two aspects of the same issue: the strategic partnership between Russia and China which is fast becoming a foreign policy, commercial and military alliance.... Meanwhile, our International Relations experts, who are generalists by definition, lack the in-depth knowledge of Russia to say something serious and valuable for policy formulation. The whole field of area studies has atrophied in the United States over the past 20 years, with actual knowledge of history, languages, cultures being largely scuttled in favor of numerical skills that will provide sure employment in banks and NGOs upon graduation. The diplomas have been systematically depreciated. The result of the foregoing is that there are very few academics who can put the Russian Chinese
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: China, Russia
This could be interesting, too:
Michael Hudson writes China: Local Flowers Bloom
tom writes Europe’s foreign policy has been hacked and the consequences are dire
Matias Vernengo writes The Gift of Sanctions
tom writes The corruption of US foreign policy & weaponization of antisemitism
In this essay we will examine two aspects of the same issue: the strategic partnership between Russia and China which is fast becoming a foreign policy, commercial and military alliance....
Meanwhile, our International Relations experts, who are generalists by definition, lack the in-depth knowledge of Russia to say something serious and valuable for policy formulation. The whole field of area studies has atrophied in the United States over the past 20 years, with actual knowledge of history, languages, cultures being largely scuttled in favor of numerical skills that will provide sure employment in banks and NGOs upon graduation. The diplomas have been systematically depreciated.
The result of the foregoing is that there are very few academics who can put the Russian Chinese alliance into a comparative context. And those who do exist are systematically excluded from establishment publications and round table public discussions in the United States....Une parole franche
Russia-China Strategic Partnership: why US and European political analysts miss the point entirely and what does it tell us about the multipolar world
Gilbert Doctorow
See also (Doctorow cites this in his article)
Important backgrounder.
Valdai Club (17.10.2017)
Revolution, War and Empire
Dominic Lieven