{"id":24361,"date":"2017-07-04T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24361"},"modified":"2017-07-04T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:00:02","slug":"russia-china-tandem-shifts-global-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24361","title":{"rendered":"Russia-China Tandem Shifts Global Power\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/07\/03\/russia-china-tandem-shifts-global-power\/\">Russia-China Tandem Shifts Global Power\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Official Washington\u2019s arrogance in trying to push around Russia and China has pushed the two countries together, creating a dangerous new dynamic in international relations, explains ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Top Russian and Chinese leaders are busy comparing notes, coordinating their approach to President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg this weekend. Both sides are heralding the degree to which ties between the two countries have improved in recent years, as Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s visits Moscow on his way to the G20.\u00a0And, they are not just blowing smoke; there is ample substance behind the rhetoric.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23211\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-10.50.46-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23211\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-10.50.46-AM-300x169.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-10.50.46-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-10.50.46-AM-160x90.png 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-10.50.46-AM.png 686w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to a state dinner during their summit at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on April 6, 2017. (Screen shot from whitehouse.gov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whether or not Official Washington fully appreciates the gradual \u2013 but profound \u2013 change in America\u2019s triangular relationship with Russia and China over recent decades, what is clear is that the U.S. has made itself into the big loser.<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the days when Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger skillfully took advantage of the Sino-Soviet rivalry and played the two countries off against each other, extracting concessions from each.\u00a0Slowly but surely, the strategic equation has markedly changed \u2013 and the Sino-Russian rapprochement signals a tectonic shift to Washington\u2019s distinct detriment, a change largely due to U.S. actions that have pushed the two countries closer together.<\/p>\n<p>But there is little sign that today\u2019s U.S. policymakers have enough experience and intelligence to recognize this new reality and understand the important implications for U.S. freedom of action.\u00a0Still less are they likely to appreciate how this new nexus may play out on the ground, on the sea or in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia-China Tandem Shifts Global Power\u00a0 Exclusive: Official Washington\u2019s arrogance in trying to push around Russia and China has pushed the two countries together, creating a dangerous new dynamic in international relations, explains ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. Top Russian and Chinese leaders are busy comparing notes, coordinating their approach to President Donald Trump at the G20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,6963,7000,694,827],"class_list":["post-24361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-consortium-news","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24362,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361\/revisions\/24362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}