[Link] China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem

Read: 26/9/2021 foreignpolicy.com

Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons. An ascendant power, which chafes at the rules of the existing order, gains ground on an established power—the country that made those rules.

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[Link] Republic of Guria

Read: 18/8/2021 en.wikipedia.org

The Republic of Guria or the Gurian Peasant Republic was an insurrection that took place in the western Georgian province Guria (then part of the Imperial Russia) prior to and during the Russian Revolution of 1905.

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