Great power game has already begun. The world is mainly focused on two significant areas namely Syria with adjoining Iraq and other neighbours and South China Sea where US is challenging a sort of sovereign being imposed by China by building large artificial structures resembling islands.
This gives rise to alliances with Russia, Iran, Syria and other
Mid-east countries against the Sunni monarchs backed by West and will
divide European Union to new power allignments
Russia’s military action in Syria by bombarding the Rebel Syrian forces give a clear message that Russia aims at nullifying the spring revolution in Mid East and desires to impose its policy through its client regime of Bashar –al-Assad. Russia’s relations with Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea has given rise to Russia’s assertion as a re entry of its old superpower status in the international arena.
With military intervention in Syria, Putin publicly displayed that Russia has the muscle to emerge as a major player in global politics and unlike America , Russia can be trusted to clean up the mess in the Middle East .The strikes followed Putin's first address at the United Nations General Assembly in a decade and ended a period of isolation over Moscow's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine last year.The launch of strikes in Syria on 30th September --is Russia's first major military involvement outside former Soviet Union territory since the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
Russia has been conducting air strikes in Syria in defence of the embattled regime of President Bashar al-Assad since September 30,accusing West for using Syrian regime’s abuses of human rights to interfere in sovereign countries,Putin said: “Instead of settling conflicts ( for the advancement of democracy) it leads to their escalation, instead of sovereign and stable states we see the growing spread of chaos, and instead of democracy there is support for a very dubious public ranging from open neo-fascists to Islamic radicals.”
Likewise China’s aim in expanding new sort of sovereignty in South China Sea by building areo strips and military structures is considered as a direct challenge to the military might of US superpower that has already declared that it will enter or sail warships waters inside the 12-nautical-mile zones around islands China has built in the Spratly chain.
Washington said it does not recognize Beijing's sovereignty over the several islands China has built on reefs in the Spratly archipelago and says the US navy will continue to operate wherever international law allows.
The issue is central to increasingly tense relations between the United States and China, the world's two largest economies.
Consequently China and US are virtually in a stand off position that may unfold some new scenario in the power game.
The conflict in Syria has become a warzone with rebel forces being supplied with arms and ammunitions by US and Assad Army being protected under Russian air cover who has also indicated even its ground forces can enter that theatre of conflict .
This is the first intervention since the collapse of Soviet .US accuses Russia of building its power bloc in this area under the guise of eliminating ISIS.IF Russia succeeds in Syria it will likely control major chunk of Mid-East countries thereby enhancing its global image which will also boost Putin’s domestic standing .
Kremlin has also in mind the desire to break NATO alliance that is being controlled exclusively by US. European countries being in turmoil due to major ongoing migration can opt for new NATO like alignment that may favour Russia .
Time thus appears ripe for China to play its power game in South China Sea to defy US naval maneuvers It is time of great challenges for all-round US superpower status .
It is noteworthy that warplanes of various countries like Russians, Americans,Israelis, Turks and French are simultaneously operating in Syrian air space with implicit intention of apportioning the Mid-East world in their own ambit of influence.
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