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Geopolitics, Not Ideology, Should Guide Our Policies Toward China, Russia, and Iran

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Geopolitics, Not Ideology, Should Guide Our Policies Toward China, Russia, and Iran
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani walk as they attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of State in Bishkek on June 14, 2019. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images
Francis P. Sempa
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The neoconservative crusade against “autocracy” is on display in the pages of National Review, where Corban Teague of the McCain Institute’s Human Rights and Freedom Program and Daniel Twining of the International Republican Institute call upon the United States to “robustly counter” the “axis of autocracy” composed of China, Russia, and Iran. After the failures of the Afghan and Iraq wars, which the neoconservatives transformed into a Global War on Terror (GWOT), the search for a new ideological opponent has been found: autocracy.
Francis P. Sempa
Francis P. Sempa
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Francis P. Sempa is an attorney, an adjunct professor of political science at Wilkes University, and a former contributing editor to American Diplomacy. Mr. Sempais is the author of “Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century,” “America’s Global Role: Essays and Reviews on National Security,” “Geopolitics and War, and Somewhere in France,” “Somewhere in Germany: A Combat Soldier’s Journey through the Second World War.” He has written lengthy introductions to two of Mahan’s books, and has written on historical and foreign policy topics for The Diplomat, Joint Force Quarterly, the Washington Times, The American Spectator, and other publications. He also writes a monthly column Best Defense for RealClearDefense.
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