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Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 25 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that worked for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 30 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. His blog Foreign Matters was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2010. He has written for The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph, and is the author of Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic (a bestseller in former Yugoslavia), “Dirty Northern B*st*rds!” and Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain’s Football Chants (E&T, 2014) and Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (E&T, 2015). He is founder and editor of the current affairs site TheWhatandtheWhy.com.

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This is the geopolitics of fear. If China did not control Tibet, it would always be possible that India might attempt to do so. This would give India the commanding heights of the Tibetan Plateau and a base from which to push into the Chinese heartland, as well as control of the Tibetan sources of three of China’s great rivers, the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong, which is why Tibet is known as ‘China’s Water Tower’. China, a country with approximately the same volume of water usage as the USA, but with a population five times as large, will clearly not allow that
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This early Russia, known as the Grand Principality of Muscovy, was indefensible.
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Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar. He put into practice the concept of attack as defense

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