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© Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Pentagon chief plans to shift U.S. focus to China and Russia
By ROBERT BURNS SIMI VALLEY, Calif©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
If China's Belt and Road is joined with Moscow's Eurasian Economic Union (Google/Yandex Xi Putin 'best friends') backed by Russia's huge nuclear arsenal, the empire they could create would be the most powerful ever.
Pot - kettle.
Esper's from Raytheon, one of the globe's largest defense contractors. He'll continue to push for increased defense spending, central to the US economy. Taxes paid by the working and middle classes will continue to pay to subsidize defense corporations (and big oil) while seeing moneys for education, healthcare, infrastructure, research to find ways to reduce environmental problems, etc., i.e. things that benefit the general population most, reduced. Same as it ever was, but getting worse under Trump.
Chip Star
This sounds like a pivot to Asia. It seems familiar.
lostrune2
Those 2 initiatives are actually in competition though
Russia does not want to lose their old Soviet satellite republics to fall to Chinese influence
What China gains, Russia loses
PTownsend
Each point well taken. At this point it's hard to know if the two powers will compete for greater regional, e.g. former SSRs, even global dominance, or co-operate.
China's probably ahead of Russia technologically and financially, but Russia's got the larger nuke arsenal and better prepared military. Plus Russia's got huge reserves of oil, gas and coal, which China and other fossil economies need to maintain the wealth of their respective establishments.
In defense of saying the two could merge forces, I'll fall back on 'Xi calls Putin best friend', which I'm well aware needs to be seriously questioned.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48537663
lincolnman
Well, good luck with that Sec Esper...
Donnie's Master and puppet-string puller is in Russia and his and Ivanka's clothes and shoes are all made in China...
Your chances of doing that are about the same as Donnie passing up golf this weekend to attend church...