Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, 15th Director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe (2015-2021).
The U.S. has already started facing challenges to its superpower status from China...growing alliance between China and Russia has added further force to it," professor Ashok Swain told Newsweek.
The intervention signals an evolution for the Collective Security Treaty Organization, previously seen as an ineffective mouthpiece.