By Nirmal P. Acharya
Let’s be clear, China and Russia have entered into an unannounced but de facto alliance. As a result, American hegemony is at stake and the West must be getting pretty nervous.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first visit to China in his new term, and China gave him the highest level of reception, ignoring repeated warnings from the US in person and at a distance. All this signifies that China-Russia cooperation has reached an unprecedented height. What real power can overcome this back-to-back power combination of China and Russia?
The conclusion is that no power in the world can defeat this combination of powers. First, the US cannot defeat Russia and China militarily because they are both nuclear powers. Second, the US cannot defeat China and Russia economically because Russia is the largest resource country and China is the strongest industrial country.
I really don’t understand why the US persists in pushing China and Russia into a corner at the same time, forcing China and Russia to build a close relationship of life and death.
It seems that the trend of the Great Game between China, the US and Russia is like this: the more the US threatens China and Russia, the tighter the hug between China and Russia. The closer China and Russia embrace each other, the more vulnerable America becomes. To put it more bluntly, by driving Russia and China into a corner, the US is ultimately driving itself into a corner. The American government excels at hypocrisy.
The US is currently a hegemonic power, and it will destroy anyone who annoys it. China is more and more disobedient in the eyes of the US, and the US will naturally take measures against China. The Indo-Pacific strategy is one of its means.
Since the Americans claim that the MCC is an integral part of the Indo-Pacific strategy, the Chinese see the MCC as a threat. And the more threatened China feels, the closer it will be to Russia. In this way, the MCC in Nepal has actually played a facilitating role in the Sino-Russian alliance. Dare I ask: Does this role of the MCC contradict the original intention of the US to send the MCC to Nepal as a gift?
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.
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