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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…
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