Most Western thinkers long ago came to see communist ideology as effectively dead—even in China, where, in the late 1970s, the CCP leader Deng Xiaoping set aside the Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy in favour of something more akin to state capitalism. But Kevin Rudd says Xi has brought that era of pragmatic, non-ideological governance to a crashing […]
Appeasement- Part of the Foreign Policy Playbook
Appeasement” refers to a policy aimed at avoiding conflict or war by making concessions to and aggressive or hostile country. In international relations appeasement involves giving in to the demands of a more powerful nation to avoid confrontation, even if it means sacrificing one’s own interest or values. Appeasement got a bad name due to […]