Publication Type
Blog Post
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2022
Abstract
Strategists in Beijing tend to think of geopolitics in terms of geometries, especially strategic triangles and the concentric circles of tianxia (“all under heaven”).China’s strategic triangles should be understood as United Front Work, which are intended to join with one group of ‘friends’ to isolate and attack another group of ‘enemies’.Both China and Russia present their own models of global concentric circles. Here China and Russia are each at the centre of their own world orders, and each is at the periphery of the other’s, which eventually will lead to conflict.
Discipline
International Relations | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Areas of Excellence
Digital transformation
Publisher
ACM
Citation
CALLAHAN, William A., "Geopolitical geometries in China-Russia relations" (2022). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 4324.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4324
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4324
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