This is the third book in the series, Vladimir Putin. A Geostrategic Russian Icon, which describes in detail the last two years in Russias ongoing strategy to work with China within the Brics and the Sco, to deprive the United States its global leading role in the ongoing process of creating a multipolar world with multiple centres of power. The text is based on various international sources, with touches of the authors own analysis and the reader gets an entirely different and more nuanced picture of the dramatic situation in the world than the established media conveys. We get to follow all the way from the drama with Boeing MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, the Islamic State, Russian, Chinese and American military development and the crisis in the South China Sea, Sweden and finally the dramatic developments in the United States in connection with presidential elections.