January 21, 2017

"As opposed to former US President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump has consistently spoken favorably about Russia and its President Vladimir Putin. Perceiving China as a threat to American workers and American projection of power, Trump wants to 'work together with Russia to solve many pressing issues facing the world.' 

Some media outlets have thus made historical analogies by predicting that the Trump administration’s policy towards China could be a reversal of the Nixon administration’s approach in 1972. In other words, instead of playing the 'Chinese card' against the former USSR, Trump would potentially try to pull Russia out of China’s list of strategic partners through enhancing US-Russian relations, so that Washington would not have to confront Moscow and Beijing simultaneously. Meanwhile, Moscow could even potentially help Washington to counter-balance Beijing, should it no longer consider Beijing a valuable trading and strategic partner. "

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