The recent summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sent another wave of panic through Western political and media circles. On both sides of the Atlantic, the growing partnership between Russia and China is habitually described as an authoritarian alliance plotting against the ‘free world’. Headlines drip with warnings about a new anti-Western axis. Think tanks speak in apocalyptic tones. Liberal commentators invoke a new Cold War.
But beneath the hysteria lies a simpler reality: The old world order is losing its grip.
The Russia-China partnership is not a crusade against the West. It is a revolt against unipolarity – against the idea that…
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