Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of ‘To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power’ (2024), ‘Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia’ (2014), and ‘Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy’ (2009).