Bush-Cheney Policies Help Revive Russo-Chinese Military Alliance
The implementation of Bush-Cheney Foreign Policy, 2001-2007, has succeeded in reviving strategic and tactical Russian-Chinese military ties for the first time since the Russo-Chinese Military Alliance split apart over three decades ago. US Foreign Policy from Nixon-Kissinger on tried to help make this split permanent, and to cultivate separate relationships between the US and China, and the US and Russia, on two separate tracks.
Now, thanks largely to Bush’s "Bring ‘em all on" approach to world diplomacy, and to the inept, misguided, and badly informed Bush-Cheney operators in the State Dept. (John Bolton & Co.), this military alliance has been revived. Through a series of strategic and tactical blunders, Bush-Cheney policies have helped revive a long-past Russo-Chinese alliance, now known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which certainly is potentially not good news for the United States, in the short or the long term.
In fact, many analysts regard the new SCO Organization as a potential global challenge to NATO, which is now at least nominally in charge of our own military operations in Afghanistan.
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