Wild Cards: Russia, China, India and Islam

A brief digression at this point seems appropriate, if only because of the recent controversy instigated by Harvard’s Samuel Huntington. ¹ Huntington’s book ends with a scenario for war between the US and China in 2010. Huntington explains that such a conflict is plausible, if not necessarily probable. The claim of plausibility rests on a number of assumptions, of which the most important is that the West has begun an inevitable decline while Sinic civilization is on the rise, and that the two will inevitably clash, if not necessarily violently.