The emerging Sino-Russian alliance controls a huge swath of central Asia, the potential seat of a world empire.
Adm. John Aquilino is a warrior who intuitively understands global geopolitics. A 1984 graduate of the Naval Academy with a degree in physics, Aquilino is a naval flyer who was deployed in support of Operation Deny Flight, Deliberate Force, Southern Watch, Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom, earning the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Air Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, and unit and campaign citations. Since May 2021, Aquilino has served as commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, which includes 380,000 servicemen and servicewomen in a region that encompasses 36 countries and more than 50 percent of the world’s population. Aquilino recently sounded the alarm about the danger of the emerging Sino-Russian alliance. “I only see the [Sino-Russian] cooperation getting stronger,” Aquilino told the Aspen Forum, “and boy, that’s concerning. That’s a dangerous world.”
