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Why China can afford to bide its time, from Oriana Skylar Mastro and Derek Scissors for Foreign Affairs.

The United States and its Gulf Arab partners need a new security arrangement that effectively shares the burden of defending against Iranian hostility and goes beyond deterrence.

History provides a powerful reminder of the devastating consequences of war. The world must never forget that war is a great tragedy which unleashes a level of violence and carnage of unimaginable proportions. World War II (WW2), fought from 1939-1945, resulted in approximately 60 million military and civilian deaths, in addition to roughly 25 million battle wounded. Beyond the violence on the battlefield, deaths from hunger and preventable diseases are …

With the end of the Cold War, apart from claims of “end of history” and “end of ideology”, there was a widely held geopolitical thought – “With U.S. unipolarity, the concept of strong imposing their will on the weak or better known as Spheres of Influence is redundant.” However, as Graham Allison pointed out in 2020, the “New Spheres of Influence” continue to reflect the older power equations, as well as present strategic ambitions and the United States, would have to ‘share the globe’ with other powers.

Loss of chip production and sanctions from an invasion of Taiwan could lead to an acute recession. Click here to know the impacts of Taiwan invasion.