The autocrat alliance: How dictators Putin and Xi Jinping are threatening freedom
The security situation is like a powder keg. Russia is waging a major war in Ukraine that is also directed against the European security order. In Asia, China is rattling its sabres and threatening to take Taiwan by force. Global peace, which seemed to have returned after the end of the Cold War, is under threat. In his political non-fiction book, the renowned expert on foreign and security policy Ulrich Speck makes it clear that the escalation of the world situation is being deliberately driven forward by two revisionist world powers. He shows that Russia and China are pursuing a common agenda to overcome the Western liberal world order. So far, the West's response to this has been one of uncertainty. If there is no decisive change of course, dark times lie ahead.
‘We are seeing changes that we have not seen in 100 years. And we are the ones driving these changes.’ Xi Jinping at a joint appearance with Vladimir Putin
