Sikri: Pushing China and Russia together is a major US strategic mistake
Rajiv Sikri · Rajiv Sikri Former MEA Secretary On India-US Relations, Pakistan's Decline & Bangladesh · Oct 26, 2024 · at 1:10:31
Former Indian diplomat Rajiv Sikri analyzes great-power geopolitics and the strategic risks of a unified Eurasian bloc against the West.
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“Well, now the Americans have brought China and Russia much closer, which I think is a strategic mistake from American point of view, because Chinese American thinkers like Brzezinski and others, and earlier also have all argued that you don't want Eurasia to be united. It becomes too strong. And it would seem to be in the interests of the United States to keep this, to divide it.”
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