India, Aug. 8 -- The growing strategic convergence of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea is bringing a new geopolitical rivalry into sharper focus. Their expanding cooperation across defence, technology, trade and cyberspace is steadily altering the global balance of power and posing the most significant challenge yet to American primacy

United States (US) strategic circles have been awash in a new lexicon after Bradley L Bowman, Elaine K Dezenski, and Rear Admiral (Retd) Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies argued in Axis of Aggressors: Countering the Cooperation of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea that the four nations - China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran - now function as a strategically aligned bloc eve...