BOOK TITLE: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph over China AUTHOR: Jonathan DT Ward HEADLINE: The Russia-China Axis: A Decade in the Making and Shaping the Future The invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the apparent Russia
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The invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the apparent Russia-China alliance marked a critical turning point. This "no limits partnership" is an iteration of their "comprehensive partnership of strategic coordination for a new era," with deep philosophical, military, and economic dimensions. This axis, in the making for a decade, signifies a return to a world divided between allies and adversaries, dictatorships and democracies, with China as the primary driver of this geopolitical shift.
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| 0:31.3 | This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Batchel. February 24th, 2022, the day the world changed again. |
| 0:43.0 | The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and soon afterwards, the apparent alliance between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. |
| 0:55.2 | That date, that moment, is critical to understand a new book, The Decisive Decade, American Grand Strategy for |
| 1:03.3 | Triumph Over China. |
| 1:04.5 | I welcome the author, Jonathan D.T. Ward. |
| 1:08.3 | Jonathan, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:09.9 | Thank you for this. |
| 1:10.7 | February 24th, |
| 1:12.9 | 2020, at war in Europe. But China also entered the conversation by saying it was allied |
| 1:22.3 | in several languages with Vladimir Putin. Was that something that People's Republic of China had counted on? |
| 1:30.4 | They were doing so well, and then everything changed. Good evening to you, Jonathan. |
| 1:34.8 | Good evening, John, and great to be with you. Well, I think the Russia-China axis has been |
| 1:39.5 | at this point, at least a decade in the making. I mean, we can trace it back even to Crimea in 2014 |
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