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Hmmm... despite your obvious bias against China and tendency to inflate India's prospects and power (which you inadvertently admit in the conclusion that India must prepare for consequences from both the US and China if their 'detente' succeeds) this article gives a reasonable overview of the geopolitics. But it seems to strongly downplay the strong Russia-China ties with the BRI project. China's history - which was of 18 centuries of being the world's largest economy based on trade (the Silk Road) has little in common with the US history of predation, colonialism, conquest and warmongering. Therefore I find this assumption of 'bipolar' domination inaccurate. China is simply resuming its natural trajectory .... its expansion of ties with other countries is based on a win-win approach, versus the US's 'let us rape you, or we will kill you' approach. I am Indian-born by the way.

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There's no way this "New Detente" lasts at all. US global capital wants to contain China even more so than Russia, although they have no way of doing so.

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