A basic postulate of Mearsheimer's offensive realism expressed in The Tragedy of Great Power Politics says that states attempt to maximise their power at the expense of other states with survival as ultimate goal.
Great power politics is played with economical and military force both ultimately resting on supply of energy.
China is now increasing its energy production with a new coal plant opened every week.
President Biden is pledging to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030.
This is the set-up for the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow starting next week: China will continue to build economical and military power from fossil energy, while EU/US will phase out fossil energy without possibility to compensate by new nuclear energy.
From an offensive realist point of view with survival as ultimate goal, this does not look good at all for EU/US. Clearly EU/US politicians do not listen to Mearsheimer, only Xi.
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I light of resent event i international politics, perhaps more people should read this book.
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