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Although the geopolitical rationale for the arrangement is understandable, the parties have failed to come to terms with its core problems.
As the United States adapts to rising strategic competition with China, it has sought to strengthen ties with New Delhi as a key partner in the Indo-Pacific.
Xi Jinping has no other option than to support Vladimir Putin—or someone like him
What China’s Growing Regional Ambitions Mean for Moscow
A recent revolt has exposed significant flaws in the Russian system—but won’t keep the Kremlin from responding with yet more repression.
First, the current landscape for human rights is grim. Democracy continues to backslide around the world – Freedom House’s 2023 report notes 17 consecutive years of democratic decline.
Although the immediate threat of revolt has been extinguished, the episode may embolden future challengers to Russia’s status quo.
With the AI regulation debate in Washington at a critical juncture, the United States cannot afford to sit on the sidelines while China and Europe decide these fundamental issues for the world.
Last weekend’s events in Russia weren’t a revolution or a civil war as some commentators have suggested, but it is much too soon to tell their ultimate impact—in Russia, in the region, and beyond.
However murky and ill conceived, Prigozhin’s mutiny did manage to do one critical thing: it poked a hole in the Kremlin’s campaign to assure Russians that everything is fine — that the economy is booming, the military is focused on winning, and the war in Ukraine won’t come for them.