Opinion: The Russian brown bear and the Chinese panda sport different colour schemes but share many common attributes. They have different diets but, most fundamentally, they are both members of the same species. | By theage political editor Peter Hart...
The Russian brown bear and the Chinese panda sport different colour schemes but share many common attributes. They have different diets but, most fundamentally, they are both members of the same species.
If either Russia or China should make a lunge to take the territory it craves, it would be a major disaster. If both acted around the same time, it would be much worse.“The greatest risk facing the twenty-first-century US, short of an outright nuclear attack, is a two-front war involving its strongest military rivals, China and Russia,” a former senior American diplomat, A.
In the war games, the US was capable of defending its own territory but not that of its allies against a Russian and Chinese attack. Speculation of a much earlier Beijing grab for Taiwan has intensified with its intimidation campaign. The mainland military forces “seem to be preparing for their final military assault against Taiwan”, Taiwan’s foreign affairs minister, Joseph Wu, said earlier this year.
Over the weekend Biden said he was compiling “the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do”.
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