04.06.2025, Moscow.
After the disintegration of the USSR, Russia was very careful to avoid being caught between NATO and a US-friendly China (“Chimerica”), philosopher, political scientist, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on May 16 on the Conversation with a Sage program on the Zvezda radio channel.
“China is a vast great country with a very complex history, including the history of Japanese humiliation, dark ages and much more. It has decided that it would be the number one on the path of friendship with the US,” the political scientist explained. The close friendship between the US and China posed huge risks for Russia.
“Then the Americans and the Chinese became so close that it became clear that Russia had nothing to gain. Russia could have found itself under pressure from NATO in the western front and, in the eastern front, under pressure from the country extremely friendly to the US. What would happen then if we are no longer the Soviet Union and something unfortunate had actually happened?” Sergey Kurginyan explained a rather risky scenario for Russia.
“They used to say that China was something secondary. Well, how about it now? So, when Russia found itself in the situation that could be described as a disastrous but, thank God, did not end in its complete disintegration, Russia could have been caught between Scylla and Charybdis, between NATO and China friendly to the US (‘Chimerica’). This should not have happened,” the political scientist explained.
Sergey Kurginyan explained that Russia has always carefully monitored developments to avoid the realization of the “Chimerica” scenario.
“Russia was watching this very closely. And Yeltsin was already monitoring this, and these relationship with Jiang Zemin is a separate issue. And then later this has been closely watched in order to not end up in a pincer-like situation, while no longer being a vast geopolitical center of power, but sharply reduced and with all accompanying negative outcomes. Not to mention the fact that Russia still has to get various technological products that it lacks from somewhere, and so on and so forth,” the analyst explained.
He has also reminded that the reasons for the USSR’s rejection of communist ideology based on the claims that “communist ideology and the communist system are not reformable” can be hardly explained to today’s China.
“Chimerica” is a term that British historian Niall Ferguson, who was once Margaret Thatcher’s speechwriter, used to describe the symbiotic economic relationship between the US and China.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
