Sanjaya Baru | Geopolitical Reverse Nixon; Geo-Economic Nixonism

Observers of international relations have coined the phrase "Reverse Nixon" to capture US President Donald Trump's presumed attempt to drive a wedge between Russia and China. Fifty-five years ago President Richard Nixon befriended Communist China to be able to take on the then Soviet Union. Any attempt to separate the "Eurasian Alliance" today is a long shot. In his essay on "The 18th Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte", Karl Marx recalls Hegel's famous remark that all great personages in history appear twice and adds his spin, saying: "The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce". It's one way of…