Europe will eventually have to choose between the US and BRICS

... course, Russia, China, India, Iran and others insist on doing business without outside interference, not to speak of foreign diktat. They don’t want to dominate Eurasia: they live there, it is their home – unlike the ever-restless “indispensable nation” thousands of miles away. In Ukraine, the main issue for Russia has been national security, not some “resurrection of an empire” ; in Taiwan, Beijing has advocated national reunification on a version of the Hong Kong model, again a far cry from an imperial ...