2023 Ukraine Crisis: Has the “Great Game” between the West and China already begun?
2023 Ukraine Crisis: Has the “Great Game” between the West and China already begun?

Author(s): Not Specified Author
Subject(s): Politics, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Geopolitics, Russian war against Ukraine
Published by: Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije IFIMES
Keywords: Ukraine; 2023; crisis; West; China; foreign policy; security;
Summary/Abstract: Historians and geopolitical experts usually seek major shifts to understand and explain the developments in the world, believing they will find answers in any major militarypolitical development. The shifts in the last century included a number of major events, each of which was considered a “milestone” towards a new phase in international relations. Maybe the most prominent of all the events were the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 on the United States of America, which constituted the first foreign attack on US soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (US port on Hawaii’s island of Oahu). The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with major human losses, followed. However, they did not inform the geopolitical situation in the world in the 21st century, which remained the same as we knew it since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early nineties of the 20th century- dominance of the West in the decision making processes at the global level, despite the Russian and Chinese opposition to certain issues. Namely, it was only limited opposition, as seen in the case of the war in Iraq.

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