“The admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours, since we have not left our power without witness…We have forced every sea and land to be the highway of our daring, and everywhere, whether for evil or for good, have left imperishable monuments behind us.” – Thucydides, Pericles’s Funeral Oration, 431 BCE “Heaven … Continue reading Balance of Power, Thucydides, Useful Idiots, & Covid-19: Part III, China and the Statecraft Dimension