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Bruno Maçães on Europe, Eurasia, Russia, China, and Ukraine | Thinking in Dark Times # 5

Explaining Ukraine

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Is China Just Waiting?

If Russia enters a period of real trouble, that perhaps China's priority will be to prevent a collapse. I think what a more practically minded politician leader in China would think is that a Russian crisis or collapse would primarily be in America's interest. As far as I can tell, this is how they're thinking. his interest for Russia to become diminished. So from this point of view, if this becomes more active conflict between the West and Russia, I'm pretty sure that China would stay on the sidelines. And again, as you say, probably attract industrial change to China,. What is the role of India? I'm not sure India wants to be part of this bipolar world, which is

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