A giant screen showing news footage of China's Xi Jinping speaking virtually to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting, which was being held in India, at a shopping mall in Beijing on July 4, 2023. Xi urged the leaders of Russia, Iran and other Shanghai alliance states on July 7 to boost ties and resist sanctions. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
China, Russia, and Iran are the new “axis of evil,” according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). In an interview with Fox News on Oct. 22, he said that aggressions by the three dictatorships, including in Ukraine, Israel, and the South China Sea, are “connected” and pose an “immediate threat to the United States.”
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
