‘Putin combustible combination of grievance, ambition, insecurity; Xi bigger threat’: CIA chief Burns

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The United States of America (USA) does not anymore enjoy “uncontested primacy” in the “world of intense strategic competition” the waters of which have been muddied by “China’s rise and Russia’s revanchism”, wrote CIA chief William Burns in Foreign Affairs. “China’s rise and Russia’s revanchism pose daunting geopolitical challenges in a world of intense strategic competition in which the United States no longer enjoys uncontested primacy and in which existential climate threats are mounting,” Burns wrote The American spy master, however, also delved into Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping from a critical-strategic vantage, calling the former the “ultimate apostle of...