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                                         “The Worst Thing That Could Happen”

The struggle for leadership between three superpowers – the United States, Russia and China – has escalated to the point that the threat of wars between them has become not only real, but highly likely, and the main impetus for this aggravation was given by decisions taken in Beijing by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

The visit of Vladimir Putin to Beijing at the opening of the Olympics and his talks with Xi Jinping became the second important event for world politics after the meeting between Joe Biden and Putin in Geneva, in June 2021. From the joint statement of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, it became clear that the process of creating a new architecture of international relations would be more complex than Washington had planned, and its consequences could be different from what the White House expected.
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