Wall Street Journal (February 21)
“Arming Russia would be a new and explicit demonstration of China’s hostile intentions toward the U.S. and the West. It would certainly erase Beijing’s seeming desire… to put U.S.-China relations on a better course. It would also require a firm U.S. response, which would have to include further economic decoupling.”
Tags: Arming, China, Demonstration, Desire, Economic decoupling, Explicit, Hostile, Intentions, Relations, Response, Russia, U.S., West
Washington Post (February 3, 2014)
Rather than marking Vladimir Putin’s crowning achievement, “the Sochi Olympics are more likely to become a forum for the demonstration of how and why Putin’s rule of Russia has failed—and how his power is ebbing both abroad and at home.”
Tags: Demonstration, Failure, Power, Russia, Sochi Olympics, Vladimir Putin