Strong Triadic Closure Property between countries
With the recent increased tension between North Korea and the United States, it is clear that many Americans view North Korea as enemy. It’s actually not just North Korea. There are many countries that America views as enemy, according to a New York Times article. This article made a list of countries that America views as allies and another list for countries that America views as enemies. North Korea took the top of the list for the list of enemies, followed by Iran and Russia. Many Americans also viewed China as an enemy as well. What’s interesting is how many of the enemy countries are allies to each other. An article by Express talked about which countries are North Korea’s strongest allies. China and Russia are two of North Korea’s biggest allies. Here, we can see a clear divide in the countries. On one side, we have United States, allied with countries such as Australia, Canada and Japan. On the other side, we have North Korea, allied with countries such as China and Russia.
We see an example of Strong Triadic Closure Property working in real life. North Korea has strong allies relationship with Russia and China. As a result, there is a relationship between China and Russia. There is actually an increasing strength in the friendship between China and Russia recently. Furthermore, we see a balanced relationship between United States, Russia, and North Korea. North Korea and Russia are allies. We can represent this as a “+” if we were to draw a graph for this relationship. United States consider both North Korea and Russia as enemies. We can represent this as “-” in a graph. A triangular graph that includes one “+” relationship and two “-” relationships is balanced (as learned in lecture). This makes sense because the relationship between these three countries has not changed that much for the past 50 years or so. This is further evidence that this is a balanced relationship.
Although the Strong Triadic Closure Property can be seen in many real-world settings, relationships between countries are one example in which people can clearly identify which countries are allies and enemies to each other. We see how the materials we learned in this class can be useful to analyze relationships between various things. I hope to take in more concepts that this class will cover so that I can view things in the world in a little bit different way.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/790523/north-korea-allies-china-russia-kim-jong-un