Strategy&Future

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Jamie Shea on the future of NATO including impact of China on NATO, US pivoting to the Indo-Pacific and the emerging space domain.

Following Mike Pence’s 2018 Hudson Institute speech, the wider narrative around China began to change — just as it started to become clear how much of China’s wealth had been ploughed back into infrastructure and the military. India hosted the world’s biggest ever elections (and its computer programmers came in for some criticism). The US withdrew its troops from Syrian Kurdistan (and set its sights on space). And in Wuhan, China, rumours emerged of a potential new SARS outbreak. This was 2019…

Jacek Bartosiak and Everett Dolman talk about space strategy, emerging space technology and the US-China space competition.

The Great Game of the XXI century is not only about Afghanistan anymore. This time, it is about a struggle by the Land Powers to bite into the World Ocean and to undermine the West’s monopoly over it and the Freedom of Navigation concept. The task of the West is to keep them inside their landmasses. It is certain now that whoever wins this episode of history, will define history until the next leap of Humanity into the new Space domain. The Black Sea (with the Eastern Mediterranean) and the South China Sea are only small episodes of the global rivalry; yet, they are the epicentres of this rivalry in Eurasia and the outcome will have global repercussions.

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Taiwan and Crimea have many interesting similarities both in terms of their geopolitical and geostrategic importance and in terms of historic and cultural narratives for China and Russia. It seems that the leaders of both countries are committed to the idea of “collecting lost lands.”

David P. Goldman and Albert Świdziński discuss China’s plan to Sinoform the World, the digital yuan, and how the US will look should it lose it’s rivalry with China.