Rinat Abdekadir

The writer is an amateur economist and a lover of history and geopolitics. He is a Kazakh Chinese from Xinjiang and Rinat currently writes extensively about China and geopolitics on Quora.

Events to Look out for the Next 25 Years

As the new cold war heats up between the status quo power, the US and the new rising power, China - there are a...

Why the West Does not Understand China?

One of the main things I often hear in the mainstream press in the West is how much of an unknown variable China is,...

Is there a next China?

Is there a next China? A lot of people will ask which country will be the “next China”? You’ll get a variety of responses...

The Coming Cold War in East Asia: The Struggle for Dominance in an Increasingly Multipolar World

A rising China and a receding United States are now fighting for dominance in one of the most strategically important areas in the world....

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