The U.S. issued the warning on Thursday, the same day Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in India after concluding a two-day visit to China.
The US's real power came from them being the dominant economic player. This allowed them to use their military with basically no consequence.
In other words, being the only viable economic partner to other countries meant they could bully them and secure 'good outcomes' for the US. But now China is everyone's biggest trading partner and the US seems completely unable to account for that reality.
The US's real power came from them being the dominant economic player. This allowed them to use their military with basically no consequence.
In other words, being the only viable economic partner to other countries meant they could bully them and secure 'good outcomes' for the US. But now China is everyone's biggest trading partner and the US seems completely unable to account for that reality.