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Who is a better ally for the US – Russia or China?

  • Written by Jeremy Friedman, Assistant Professor, Business, Government, and the International Economy, Harvard Business School
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Forty-five years ago last February, U.S. President Richard Nixon returned from a visit to China that shocked the world and unsettled leaders in Moscow, who were awaiting a visit from Nixon a few months later.

Soviet leaders wondered if they were finally witnessing the birth of a U.S.-China alliance that they had...

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