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How Revisionist States Turn Concurrency Into Strategic Advantage

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By Igor Khrestin
| George W. Bush Presidential Center
For decades, assessments of national power have focused on familiar metrics: military strength, economic output, and diplomatic influence. These remain essential, but they increasingly miss one defining feature of the current environment: concurrency. As China grows more assertive, Russia remains revisionist, Iran continues to destabilize the Middle East, and North Korea advances its nuclear ambitions, the challenge facing the United States is that these dynamics are unfolding at once.
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Malign Alignment: Human Rights and Democracy

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By Joseph Kim, Igor Khrestin
| George W. Bush Presidential Center
Democracies are losing ground to authoritarian regimes. A majority of the world’s population lives in countries that are not fully free, where political rights and civil liberties are severely restricted, according to Freedom House’s 2026 report. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, known together as CRINK, are working to undermine U.S. leadership by weakening the global rules-based system and eroding the effectiveness of international organizations.
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Malign Alignment: How China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (CRINK) threaten the U.S. and our allies

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By Joseph Kim, Igor Khrestin
| George W. Bush Presidential Center
Malign Alignment: CRINK: Overview and Fact Sheets China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, known together as CRINK, are increasingly challenging the credibility of U.S. leadership and weakening the democratic order, the source of decades of global peace and stability. To counter CRINK, the United States should adopt proactive strategies based on America’s founding ideals of freedom, opportunity, and democracy, and work closely with its allies and partners.
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