Transatlantic TakeThe rise of authoritarianism and nationalist-driven aggressive foreign policy has become a ubiquitous phenomenon around the world today. In particular, China and Russia have been challenging the status quo by force from Crimea to the South China Sea. While divergent interests are guiding such self-aggrandizing behavior, Beijing and Moscow make strange bedfellows under one common agenda: the creation of a new geopolitical reality alternative to the liberal world order. As the host of this year’s G20, China has a global stage on which to make the case for both its “peaceful rise” but also its broader intensions as an …read more