OPINION: Professor Robert Kaufman: The China-Russia pact echoes the Nazi-Soviet pact
and the Chinese, as long as these dictators remain in power, to cooperate in multiple spheres: economic, military and political.
Even if China and Russia are going to fall out in the long term, in the short term, we have to treat this threat as a monolith because their immediate interest is to weaken American power globally. And we have to act accordingly, rather than indulge in the wishful thinking that got us into this predicament in the first place.: Yes.
First, Biden initially was going to cut the defense budget and his recent decision to increase it, really only by 1.5% when you take inflation into account, is inadequate. Putin took notice of that. A, if we took what these regimes said seriously, rather than narcissistically assume they thought as we did … none of this should have been a surprise, and we should have been prepared for Ukraine. And, B, we should be preparing for China's implacable determination to subvert Taiwan's independence, which would be a moral and geopolitical disaster for us if they get away with it.
China's a different story. They are a near-peer competitor, economically, politically and militarily.
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