Soviet Union

History shows that wealth is a poor indicator of the distribution of power in the international system.

Mearsheimer says a war between the US and China will be more likely than a US-Soviet one was during the Cold War.

US political dysfunction partly reflects the fact that it doesn’t have an enemy or peer competitor to unify around.

For Beijing, Syria shows the perils of not having a global hegemon to rely on.

125,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945; 97 percent of them by the U.S. and Russia.

The Japan-Soviet War of 1939 provides some key insights into how the West should send signals in Syria.

Plus, PLA hacking unit caught trying to break into industrial water plant in US. Weekend China links.

There is a crucial difference between Sunnylands and US-USSR summits: China and the US are in constant contact.

Soviet leaders once almost mistook an exercise for an attack. Could China have similar misperceptions?

“China resembles the Soviet Union of old in its approach to cross-strait relations.”

“It was the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) that collapsed first.”

Few have seriously thought about the probability and the various plausible scenarios of a regime transition in China — until now.