Commanding and extending spheres of influence appears to restore a fading sense of grandeur. For China, Taiwan alone will not suffice. For Russia, Ukraine can never be adequate to fulfill Putin’s ...

UNDER President Donald Trump, the US is defecting from its decades-long position as an “open door” in preference for a global order that embraces spheres of influence ... proposed US tariffs are not ...

As Georgia pivots away from the West and slides into dictatorship, China emerges as its key strategic partner. While Washington and Brussels struggle to find ...

What seems to drive Trump is a more simplistic view of the world in which great powers carve out spheres of influence in which ... to rule the world without China. A deal between them may be ...

In reality, however, the 1945 Yalta Conference implicitly accepted spheres of influence for the Soviet ... That leaves China, which has propped up Russia through its Ukranian adventure.

But this is not the first time large powers have colluded to negotiate new borders or spheres of influence without the ... that was divided up this way. In 1899, Germany and the United States ...

To reduce these to their most simplified form: the US regards China as the nation’s most ... the distinct whiff of 19th century-style spheres of influence. What can be said is that Washington ...

Or contempt for a smaller nation in need, as he seeks to reorient US foreign policy to promote a spheres of influence system ... that spreads into the South China Sea, into Taiwan and metastasized ...