02-10-2017, 12:57 PM
(02-08-2017, 05:18 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: I think you are depending on a thesis of authoritarian states as being inherently rational (in contrast to democracies) that I don't feel is sound.
The USSR and Mao's China had nukes, and they still fought border conflicts and had many divisions of troops on their respective borders.
Note that I never posited as all-out war as certain, only that in the absence of outside pressures their relation is unlikely to be one of perfect amity the way you keep proposing.
I did not propose perfect amity. I challenged your idea that Russia would prefer American hegemony to Chinese hegemony.