China - US - Russia: Geopolitics and the Pandemic

Abstract

This article describes the recent events in the relations between China, the United States, and Russia (the Big Three in the struggle to shape a new world order), their role and potentialities in the process under conditions of the raging coronavirus pandemic, and the development prospects for their relations in the foreseeable future The author lays stress on his conclusions made with a view to the immediate characteristics of the present moment He sees as fundamental the fact that in the current conditions the best results are achieved through cooperation, interaction, and search for compromise, instead of setting up rival alliances and groupings, aggravating antagonisms and confrontation Therefore, the optimum thing today appears to be real effort pooling to overcome the emerging difficulties and obstacles