报告:中国崛起是俄美面临的共同挑战

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VOA Chinese, Mar 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110327_Russia_US_China-118734354.html
(瓦尔泰俱乐部; 这份报告的起草人之一，俄罗斯高等经济大学国际研究中心副主任苏斯洛夫)

Note:
(a) Russia, United States must cooperate beyond bilateral format. Valdai Club, Mar 24, 2011.
http://www.valdaiclub.com/content/russia-united-states-must-cooperate-beyond-bilateral-format
(Dmitry Suslov, deputy head of the National School of Economics’ Center for European and International Studies)

Quote: "The Valdai Club was established in 2004, and is jointly run by the RIA Novosti news agency and the Russian Council for Foreign and Defense Policies, in association with Russia Profile, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow News. The club gets its name from the Russian town where its first meeting was held.

* Council for Foreign and Defense Policies in Russia is an indepedent organization based at Moscow.
* Sergey Karaganov  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Karaganov


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(1) 海峡论谈: 从利比亚看美国介入海外危机的新思维. VOA Chinese, Mar 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110327_strait_talks-118735834.html

(2) 中国取代美国力挺巴基斯坦. VOA Chinese, Mar 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110327_China_Pakistan-118733804.html

Note: The report is triggered by
Dominic Di-Natale, Pakistan Switches Sides, Expanding Arms Allegiance With China and Leaving U.S. Behind. Fox News, Mar 26, 2011.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/26/switching-sides-pakistan-expands-arms-allegiance-china/

(3) Joseph S Nye Jr, China’s repression undoes its charm offensive. Washington Post, Mar 24, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-repression-undoes-its-charm-offensive/2011/03/24/AFdlxRYB_story.html

My comment: It goes without saying. Perhaps you need not read it. I include it only because Mr Nye coined the term "soft power."

(4) George Will, The ‘blue national soil’ of China’s navy. Washington Post, Mar 18, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-blue-national-soil-of-chinas-navy/2011/03/18/AB5AxAs_story.html

Note:
(a) Theodore Roosevelt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
(1858-1919; president 1901-1909; section 6.1 Assistant Secretary of the Navy)
(b) Blanche DuBois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_DuBois
(The night [Blanche's younger sister] Stella goes into labor, [Stella's husband and Blanche's brotehr-in-law] Stanley and Blanche are left alone in the apartment, and Stanley, drunk and powerful, rapes her. This event, coupled with the fact that Stella does not believe her, is the trigger that sends Blanche over the edge into a nervous breakdown. In the final scene, as Stella makes her stand with her husband, Blanche is led off to a mental hospital by a matron and a kind-hearted doctor. After a brief struggle followed by the administration of a sedative, Blanche smilingly acquiesces as she devolves into her fantasy life, addressing the doctor with the most famous and poignant line in the play: 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.')
(c) operetta (n: Italian dimunitive of opera): "a usually romantic comic opera that includes songs and dancing"
www.m-w.com
(d) H.M.S. Pinafore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore
(Sir Joseph comes on board, accompanied by his "admiring crowd of sisters, cousins and aunts". He recounts how he rose from humble beginnings to be "ruler of the Queen's Navee" through persistence, although he has no naval qualifications)

(5) George Will, America’s Navy and the rise of China. Washington Post, Mar 16, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-navy-and-the-rise-of-china/2011/03/16/ABx8d6g_story.html
("As one person here puts it, America ensured its victory when it controlled the Luzon Strait, a choke point between the Philippines and Taiwan")

Note:
(a) Battle of Jutland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland
(fought on 31 May-1 June 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark; the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was the third major fleet action between steel battleships, following the battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War./ Result Tactically inconclusive; British dominance of the North Sea maintained; UK 6,094 killed, Germany 2,551 killed; UK seemed to lose more battleships)

What about
Battle of the Yalu River (1894)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yalu_River_(1894)
, in which both Empires of Japan and China deployed steel battleships too--and both were fleets.

* List of naval battles between battleships
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_naval_battles_between_battleships
(This is a list of naval battles in history where steel battleships engaged each other in combat)

(b) Luzon Strait
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon_Strait
(approximately 250 km wide)
(c) Gulf of Sidra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra
(In 1973, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi claimed much of the Gulf of Sidra to be within Libyan territorial waters by drawing a straight line between Benghazi and Misratah: The Line of Death, the crossing of which would invite a military response./ The United States claimed its rights to conduct naval operations on international waters, a standard of 12-mile (19 km) territorial limit from a country's shore)
(d) feel one's oats
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feel_one's_oats

(6)
(i) 利比亚反政府势力夺回东部几大重镇. BBC Chinese, Mar 27, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/03/110327_libya_rebels.shtml
(ii) 法国摧毁更多利比亚政府军飞机. BBC Chinese, Mar 27, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/03/110327_libya_ops.shtml


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Russia has not tipped its hand about the future direction. After all, Valdai Club is but one of many voices in post-communist Russia.

But it does appear that Valdai Club has pulled back from its previous mode of China as comrade-in-arm. See, e.g.
Russian and Chinese experts discuss strategic cooperation. Ria Novosti, Nov 25, 2011.
http://en.rian.ru/valdai_context/20101125/161557743.html

Even if Russia seeks alliance with the West, particularly United States--it may well be the case if Russia President Dmitry Medvedev is re-elected, as opposed to Premier returning to the presidency--I can not fault the former. In the very beginning of 1970s, US and China (third military power then?) united against Soviet Union (lesser of the two superpowers). This time it will be China and Russia switching roles--leaving the formula unchanged: the strongest and the weakest of the triangle against the middleton.

Compare
Angela Stent, Asymmetry triangular: United States-China-Russia. Valdai Club, Jan 20, 2011.
http://www.valdaiclub.com/content/asymmetry-triangular-united-states-china-russia
("As for the triangular Washington-Moscow-Beijing relationship, the United States is a priority for both China and Russia, but for different reasons. China and the United States are important economic partners. The United States and Russia, are important security partners")

* Angela E Stent
Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/stenta/?PageTemplateID=156

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: VOA Chinese, Mar 27, 2011.
: http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110327_Russia_US_China-118734354.html
: (瓦尔泰俱乐部; 这份报告的起草人之一，俄罗斯高等经济大学国际研究中心副主任苏斯洛夫)
: Note:
: (a) Russia, United States must cooperate beyond bi
: (以下引言省略...)

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