With the Philippine president ditching Washington for Beijing, the contest to control the South China Sea just got a lot more complicated.
- By Max Boot
- October 20, 2016

International relations theorists of a “realist” persuasion like to claim that states are rational actors pursuing their strategic interests in an anarchic world where power alone matters. Ideology and domestic politics do not much concern these thinkers; they believe that a nation’s foreign policy is much more likely to be shaped by factors such as geography, demography, and economics. Tiếp tục đọc “Duterte’s Flip-Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the United States” →


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