Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.
President Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Russia has some experts suggesting he might be trying to do a “reverse Nixon” and isolate Beijing by courting Moscow.
China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American foreign policy with a sweeping pivot toward Moscow as he pushes for peace in Ukraine.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and said he was pleased with Moscow’s efforts to hold a summit with the U.S. toward ending the war in Ukraine.
China's President Xi Jinping had a call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Monday and said he was pleased with Moscow's efforts to hold a summit with the U.S. toward ending the war in Ukraine,
China and Russia’s 2022 proclamation of a “no limits” partnership with “no ‘forbidden’ areas” has had a far-reaching effect. The agreement implied that Beijing and Moscow were about to resurrect their long-defunct alliance that,
Mr Richard Nixon was the first US president to travel to China in 1972, in an effort to gather its support against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Then, China and the Soviet Union were on bad terms, having fought a border war in 1969 and saw each other as deviating from Communist teachings.
The Chinese and Russian leaders reaffirmed their relationship in a video call on Monday, an apparent rebuff to the idea that the Trump administration could drive a wedge between them.
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping said China and Russia are "true friends" who "support each other", state media reported on Monday (Feb 24). Xinhua reported Xi as saying that "history and reality show that China and Russia are good neighbours that cannot be moved away,
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese leader Xi Jinping about recent Russia-U.S. contacts on Ukraine in a phone call Monday, the Kremlin said. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese leader Xi Jinping about recent Russia-U.S. contacts on Ukraine in a phone call Monday, the Kremlin said.
President Xi Jinping said China and Russia are “true friends” who “support each other”, state media reported today. Xinhua reported Xi as