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China and the United States of America: The 21st Century's Great Game

For China, the global war for influence is about trading partners. For the US, it could mean something more volatile

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To the Americans, China is a fast rising competitor that doesn’t play by the rules

Conn Hallinan | FPIF

8 min read Last Updated : Aug 21 2020 | 3:45 PM IST

From 1830 to 1895, the British and Russian empires schemed and plotted over control of Central and South Asia.

At the heart of the “Great Game” was the United Kingdom’s certainty that the Russians had designs on India. So wars were fought, borders drawn, and generations of young met death in desolate passes and lonely outposts.

In the end, it was all illusion.

Russia never planned to challenge British rule in India and the bloody wars settled nothing, although the arbitrary borders and ethnic tensions stoked by colonialism’s strategy of divide and conquer live on today. Thus China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nepal

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