Alliances are as old as civilization. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders ...
U.S. Senator Todd Young attends a meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan in this handout released January 17, 2023. Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. United States Senator Todd Young attends a meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan in this handout released Jan. 17. The closer ties between the U.S.
Only three years ago there was only one big alliance in the world: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , founded in 1949, victorious in the Cold War and, more recently, an alliance in search of a new role. Almost everybody in Europe and North America belonged to it.GWYNNE DYER: Prince Harry talking about how many people he killed in combat is a shocking disclosure for any soldier to reveal
It was, in other words, a loosely-coupled world: something could go really bad in one part of the planet and countries in other regions would not necessarily be dragged into it. Founded in 2017, it began as just a talking shop, but, after bitter clashes between Indian and Chinese troops on the Himalayan frontier in 2019, India came fully on board, participating in the first joint naval exercises with the other three Quad members in 2020.
While China’s more belligerent style under Xi certainly accounts for the speed at which a counter-balancing alliance took shape in the region, the equal and opposite reaction to this enterprise was the announcement of a “no limits” partnership by Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in early 2022.
All the planners and the analysts insist that they have it under control. We shouldn’t worry that we are living through a high-speed replay of the creation of the entangling alliances that dragged everybody into the First World War. This is a different time.
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