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9/1/17

China-Russia Cooperation: U.S. Drives China and Russia Closer Together – by MAXIM TRUDOLYUBOV

What started as an illusory promise of rapprochement is now a bitterly acrimonious relationship. The United States and Russia are expelling each other’s diplomats by the hundreds, taking away diplomatic properties and closing down missions.

Following the U.S. Congress’s vote to upgrade anti-Russian sanctions and turn them into law, Moscow ordered a reduction of U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 people. Washington retaliated yet again by requiring Moscow to close its consulate in San Francisco.

As if that were not enough, two major international stories involving two troublesome regimes are now tightening the conflict between the United States and Russia even further.

The U.S. president Donald Trump’s strategy in dealing with North Korea does not look reconcilable with that of Moscow or Beijing. The White House recipe for dealing with a government crisis in Venezuela is also at odds with the Kremlin’s approach and its political and economic interests there.

The Korean Peninsula was “balancing on the brink of a large-scale conflict,” Russian president Vladimir Putin wrote in an article for Chinese media ahead of the BRICS Summit to be held in Xiamen, China, in early September.

Read  more: U.S. Drives China and Russia Closer Together – The Russia File

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