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Putin’s quagmire strengthens Xi’s Eurasian masterplan
China wants economic dominance and security along its long land-locked borders. Russia will never concede this but is in no shape to contest it.
Geoff RabyColumnistIt seems as if it has taken Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for much of the West to start to recognise that the world order has changed, and changed some time ago. Putin’s invasion was also possible because the order had changed already, and the US unipolar moment had long passed. The invasion itself is part of the new, potentially terrifying, multipolar order.
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