Post wall,post square

 After Berlin wall fell and after Tiananmen square,we saw thawing of relations between the west and the communist states that preceded the Cold War.now we see relations worsen again as the cold war rhetoric heats up to boiling point until maybe a nuclear meltdown can resolve it.

In her book post wall,post square,rebuilding the world post 1989,did Kristina Spohr forsee the geopolitical rift?yes indirectly,"the burgeoning partnership with Russia gave Beijing support in their quest to constrain the virtually unipolar predominance of the US in the post Cold war era.post cold war america kept a foot in Europe via NATO but also in Asia thro its position in Japan and South Korea,thereby ensuring the US remained a Pacific power.and for all of the pacific big 3 the line between being partners and competitors was thin n ever changing.

Did glasnost n perestroika improve living standard of russians?

For Deng stability n unity was essential to China as a society n a state.he was keen to combine Plan n market in organic synthesis of socialist market economy n opening up China to the world.whereas Gorbachev fail in remaking his Union,Deng succeeded.his PRC was remade and Chinese communism reinvented.its sad ex premier Li is undervalued.he steer economy to grow steadily despite challenges of derisking n decoupling.face with economy shutdown due to Covid n battling claims of forced labour,intellectual theft n spying he kept the economy growing.at same time he needed to uproot wastage,leakage n corruption.in this sense he kept on the economic reforms of Deng Xiao Peng as the nation transition to a green economy,artificial intelligence and  steer it to the height of the space age.Deng would be proud of the global achievements of his dream