by Rich Lowry
If rival civilizations feel they are ‘second class,’ there’s a reason for that.
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U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel line the deck of the USS Bataan as it sails past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, May 25, 2022.
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The increasingly evident de facto alliance between Russia and China makes the war in Ukraine begin to look a little more like a front in a larger clash of civilizations.
In his famous mid-1990s book of that name, Samuel Huntington briefly contemplated such a partnership: “Russia and China united would decisively tilt the Eurasian balance against the West and arouse all the concerns that existed about the Soviet-Sino relationship in the 1950s.”
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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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The increasingly evident de facto alliance between Russia and China makes the war in Ukraine begin to look a little more like a front in a larger clash of civilizations.
In his famous mid-1990s book of that name, Samuel Huntington briefly contemplated such a partnership: “Russia and China united would decisively tilt the Eurasian balance against the West and arouse all the concerns that existed about the Soviet-Sino relationship in the 1950s.”
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About the Author
Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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