Will China invade Taiwan?

Trenin, Dmitri V. Getting Russia Right. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007.

Dmitri Trenin is the Russian Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and served in the Russian armed forces from 1972-1993. While not directly pointing a finger at Washington, Trenin in Getting Russia Right, argues that it is the United States that must change the way it deals with Russia.[footnoteRef:1] For years, the United States has held Russia to a standard that it does not apply to other emerging powers, such as India and China. In addition, the United States has a habit of dealing with regimes that are more autocratic than the one currently sitting in the Kremlin. He further argues that “an alliance of democracies” alone will not be able to solve the problems of world governance, such as global terrorism, international crime and proliferation of WMD. As long as the United States continues to view Russia as a threat rather than as a partner, the relationship is unlikely to improve.[footnoteRef:2] [1: Dmitri Trenin, Getting Russia Right. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007, 101. ] [2: Ibid, 101-103.]