Lecturer @KingsCollegeLon within @DefAcUK | 🇺🇲 & 🇨🇳 Grand Strategy | World Order
Feb 20, 2022 • 23 tweets • 15 min read
1. #NixonMao#rapprochement 50th ANNIVERSARY: SOME FACTS & LESSONS.
In only 50 years, everything changes. Strategic interests of two great powers aligned then as much as they clash today.
I hate threads but my blog is not out yet: here some disorderly thoughts.
2. In 1972, China needed to avert a terrestrial invasion from #USSR. The #UnitedStates was keen to gain a heavy-weight partner to checkmate #Moscow; but the long-term objective was to bring the most populous country into a rising US-led global economic order for the US to profit