America’s Simultaneous Management of China, Russia and Iran

Beijing, Moscow and Tehran each must strike its own deal with Washington, giving the U.S. a strategic advantage.

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That the United States is engaged in high-stakes negotiations with China, Russia and Iran – all at the same time – is a rare geopolitical situation. Put simply, U.S. diplomacy is heading toward a crescendo in which timing, sequencing and cross-theater signaling will shape outcomes as much as the substance of any single deal. Each […]

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Kamran Bokhari
Kamran Bokhari, PhD, is a regular contributor to and former senior analyst (2015-2018) with Geopolitical Futures. Dr. Bokhari is now the Senior Director, Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Bokhari is also a national security and foreign policy specialist at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. He has served as the Coordinator for Central Asia Studies at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @Kamran Bokhari