Artyom Lukin: US-China Bipolarity, Russia as 2nd Tier Power, & Era of Closed Borders

IR scholar Artyom Lukin talks about Climate Change in Russia and how the decline of American hegemony has become a moot point as the real question is what will replace it. He believes we are entering a prolonged period of US-China bipolarity with Russia as a second tier power, and the potential for a multipolar world down the road. The difficulty in analyzing Beijing is that China is completely non-transparent to outside observers, a "black box". No one, including the Russians, really understands what China wants. He also discusses why he and others think the world has entered an era of isolationism, closed borders, and restricted travel triggered by the geopolitics of intensifying great-power rivalry. He also gives his thoughts on Vladimir Putin, North Korea, and what the near-future portends for the United States (e.g. civil war?).

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Show Notes
Can Russia become China’s strategic mercenary? https://www.9dashline.com/article/can-russia-become-chinas-strategic-mercenary
Era of isolationism is coming to the world https://www.rt.com/op-ed/522863-era-isolationism-borders-covid
The end of civil wars? https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511561-end-of-civil-wars
America needs to create a new enemy. Anti-China hostility is only thing that unites Reps & Dems https://www.rt.com/op-ed/506886-regain-unity-america-enemy-china
The Russia–China entente and its future https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342157695_The_Russia-China_entente_and_its_future

Websites
Twitter https://twitter.com/ArtyomLukin
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Artyom-Lukin
RT Op-Eds https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/artyom-lukin

About Artyom Lukin
Artyom Lukin is deputy director for research at the School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia). He is also ass..