Twilight of the＂Great Strategic Triangle＂: China, Russia, and America Since the Cold War

Twilight of the＂Great Strategic Triangle＂: China, Russia, and America Since the Cold War

The early assumption in the West was that the end of the Cold War sounded the death knell of the Sino-Soviet-American“Great Strategic Triangle”. The end of the Cold War had unleashed a sweeping new globalization, eliminating the so-called Iron Curtain cleaving“communism”and the“free world”and generating a“flat world”of unimpeded transnational capital and labor markets.1 Much of the so-called Communist bloc renounced communism while the few remaining holdouts revised it substantially it in order to survive. Lacking ideological cleavages, the world would now enjoy what George H. W. Bush and Margaret Thatcher called a“peace dividend,”shifting focus to poverty alleviation, underdevelopment, climate change, and other neglected priorities. Triangular machinations were passe.
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