Convergence of China, Russia and Iran / A Response to US Coalition Building.
Maryam Khormaei: The hasty withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan may be seen as a clear irony of the importance of the Indo-Pacific rotation approach for the Democratic president of the United States, to the extent that he was willing to hurt the trust of European and regional allies in Washington.
For Joe Biden and the presidents after him, concentrating all their energy on West and Southwest Asia marks the transfer of the “Indo-Pacific” as the arena of 21st century competition to China, which in this strategic arena is both a local and an international power. Deemed to be. In other words, the post-World War II stability period in which the United States was the pillar of world order is over, while Washington, despite its aristocracy, is still seeking to consolidate its position on the new stage.
But Biden, willing to partially withdraw from older scenes such as the Middle East in order to force China and, of course, Russia into the Indo-Pacific, has no choice but to redefine old alliances and create new ones, which is a big challenge. The earliest example of this is thought to have been found in the Agus Security Treaty – a military agreement between the United States, Australia and Britain that required the circumvention of French interests.
But even Europe’s demand for “strategic independence,” seen as an acknowledgment of the shortcomings of the Brussels-Washington relationship, cannot prevent a redefinition of the alliance between them in the interests of the 21st century. At the same time, we will see the formation of new alliances, especially in the Indo-Pacific, of which “Quad” and “Akus” are considered prototypes.
With this introduction, we come to the question of what is the most common reaction of countries outside the circle of Washington allies to these alliances?
Restoration of global structure / resilience against pressure
Over the past few years, the summary of the US defense strategy has been based on the assumption that Russia and China, as revisionist powers, seek to weaken the US position and consolidate their desired models for shaping world order and influencing other countries. However, in response to a question about Iran-China cooperation, Biden claimed that he had been concerned about this issue for several years.
This shows that the Washington administration is most concerned about the growing convergence of China, Russia, and Iran among all the countries on the opposite side of the Western bloc, but is it not that they deny the legitimacy of this convergence by retaliation? They have formed alliances against which the United States has formed.
