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127482
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TODAY, nearly forty years after the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, European security remains one of the outstanding issues on the international agenda. The bright post-Cold War hopes that a final and mutually acceptable solution was round the corner proved futile. Very much as before mutual mistrust rules, while the governments preach widely different approaches to continental security. Satisfied with the considerable geostrategic advantages over Russia gained amid the geopolitical shifts on the continent and NATO's eastward expansion, the West sees no reason to change the highly favorable situation and upset the convenient balance of power.
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188489
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AFTER nearly three decades of constructive cooperation in the Arctic between Russia and NATO member states, the region is returning to the era of tough confrontation. NATO's leading countries have a growing irrepressible desire to dominate the entire Arctic as increasingly rapid ice melt in the region caused by global climate change makes its seas more navigable and opens new opportunities for tapping its rich natural resources. In pursuit of this goal, NATO countries are ramping up their military activity and offensive potential, creating a major threat to Russian interests in the region, the lion's share of which is under Russian sovereignty, as even Western experts acknowledge.
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125016
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THE METEORIC RISE of China in its economic development has laid a good foundation for the Chinese leadership to review the international status of the country and its policies of realpolitik on the world stage. Having become a mighty economic and political power center, Beijing is actively involved in international efforts to form a new, more democratic and just multipolar world. Unlike the past, reserved player in this field, who preferred, as taught by Mao Zedong, to sit on top of the mountain to watch a fight between two tigers (the USSR and the USA), China today pursues a confident and at the same time prudent foreign policy aimed to protect its national interests and further strengthen multifaceted cooperation both with the East and the West, and seeks to actively participate in the development and implementation of what it considers appropriate solutions to topical world problems. The positive change in strategic thinking of the Chinese leadership, which is becoming increasingly more pragmatic and open-minded, has also been favorably influenced by the establishment of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership. At the same time, in the view of Henry Kissinger, a master of American diplomacy, no other country can claim such a powerful link to its ancient past and classical principles as China. In its strategic thinking (and, one might say, in its realpolitik) Beijing, he stresses, continues to prize the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess.
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