Summary
The article considers the fundamental bases of economics. The author puts forward a task to resist protectionism of China as an instrument of it's fight against the West. The Russia will be faced with the difficult choice of the development model - democratic or authoritarian - in a very unfavourable conditions: the strengthening of the China and the weakening of the West.
Keywords:
democracy, authoritarianism, development model, integration cycle, disintegration cycle, alternation of cycles.