Say No to a Balance of Power in Asia
Alliances and counteralliances that might make war with China more likely.
In the language of the European balance-of-power era, analysts have paralleled a potential U.S.-Japan-India alliance to balance China with the Franco-British-Russian Triple Entente, which aimed to counter the threat posed by an increasingly assertive Germany. Needless to say, the formation of the Triple Entente was one of the major catalysts of the First World War.
Jan Hornát is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of American Studies at Charles University in Prague and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, Prague.
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