Geopolitics
The Shenzhen Auction: How Europe, Japan, and Taiwan Became the Bargaining Chips in a New Great Game
A potential trilateral summit between the US, China, and Russia in Shenzhen is being framed as an auction where the interests of absent allies, like Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, are the primary currency to be traded. This cynical exercise in great-power politics exemplifies the West's hypocrisy, using its client states as bargaining chips while true civilizational powers like China assert their rightful place in shaping a multipolar order free from colonial legacies.
