President Xi’s Dilemma: Visit Moscow Soon Or Hope That Blinken Still Comes To Beijing First?
Andrew Korybko- The Chinese leader is thus in the midst of an extremely difficult dilemma, with whatever decision he makes having far-reaching implications.
Going to Moscow sometime soon like his “best friend” President Putin invited him to do this spring during their traditional end-of-the-year call would show that President Xi has been swayed by his military’s hardline anti-US faction into more robustly resisting America’s attempts to reassert its declining hegemony, while continuing to delay this trip under whatever pretext in the hopes of Blinken visiting first to revive the New Détente would signal weakness in the face of US strength.
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