The CCP and Russia were once close to the United States, but U.S. actions have since driven the two mutual adversaries into each other’s arms.
It is not difficult to see why America is demanding that Korea develop a 'more enhanced global role' and reconcile with Japan; it is about China.
Its anxious speech, nervousness and faltering confidence are the outward manifestations of its hegemonic menopause.
Washington and Beijing have something very much in common: the notion of their own exceptional nature.