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In September 2025, following a joint appearance—alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin—at a military parade at Tiananmen Square commemorating the end of World War II, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held their first summit in six years in a high-profile display of renewed solidarity. While the summit concluded with pledges of “mutual support,”1 the most consequential signal lies less in what was proclaimed than in what was conspicuously omitted.

Strategist Carl von Clausewitz has long been known for his aphorism: “War is a continuation of policy [or politics] by other means” (in German, Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln).1 The concept appeared in his 1830s treatise, On War, which remains widely taught today across civilian degree programs in security studies and professional military education programs.

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as the sole world superpower. American political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously called this period “the end of history,” as he believed that without a communist foil, liberal democracy would naturally spread around the world as the dominant form of governance. For the five remaining communist countries—China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, and Vietnam—the collapse of the Soviet Union posed an existential crisis.

China’s engagement with regions such as Africa, Asia, and the Middle East has attracted significant attention from the international community and American foreign policymakers.

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