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It is almost impossible to worsen the Russia-US ties further, as relations are at their historically lowest point. What happens next will depend on the next US leadership,
said Peskov, CCTV reported
Of course, we cannot yet know what his specific actions will be. But we do hope that America will become stronger,
he said at the European Political Community summit in Budapest, Hungary
Russia has more land than anyone. They wanted global power, starting with control over Ukraine and then over all of you,
he saidRussia started this war not because it needed more territory,
he saidHe has been saying many words for a long time, though I think actually he might this time do what he promises,
she saidChina can take a 'divide-and-conquer' strategy to dilute the effectiveness of Trump's foreign policy,
Zhiqun Zhu, an expert on Chinese foreign policy at Bucknell University, told VOA this week
There is a lot of resentment of China in Russia in both the public and policy circles,
said WolffRussia is going to be dependent on China no matter what in coming years as it seeks to rebuild its armed force and economy after Ukraine, and it's a weakness that Beijing will certainly exploit even if it costs it more to do so,
Paul Cormarie, a political analyst a the RAND Corporation told BIThe Russia-China axis against the US is here to stay."
As Cormarie put it
These deals would likely not impress serious thinkers in strategy and policy, but will be sellable as foreign policy wins,
Robert Dover, a professor of International Security at Hull University in the UK, told BIWhile there are differences between Moscow and Beijing, they both share a world view of America in terminal decline, now further accelerated by the upheaval expected from a second Trump term,
Stefan Wolff, a professor on international security at the University of Birmingham in the UK, told BIThe one thing you never want to happen is you never want Russia and China uniting,
Trump saidUnless it's [the US] replacing China as Russia's main partner (which would be frankly absurd) there's nothing much that could realistically split the two at the moment,
he saidWhile the Biden administration had a significant focus on some strategic technologies, Trump is likely to come in with broader concerns about the US economy, and I think much more willingness to push for decoupling in larger swaths of the economy,
she told DW
If it seems that the government is doing this to satisfy the US, I think at least more than half of the people in Taiwan may not buy it, and it may even increase the resistance to defense reform,
Liu saidThere's going to be probably big shifts in how the US engages with the rest of the world, including maybe first of all with China,
said Ilaria Mazzocco, deputy director of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).Although Trump may be less inclined towards military conflict, he is quite suspicious of China in other areas, even harboring a certain degree of hostility."
Chong Ja Ian, a political science associate professor at the National University of Singapore, told DWBecause he (Trump) has a businessman's personality, he may tend to treat most issues as bargaining chips,
Wen Liu, a researcher at Academia Sinica in Taiwan who has closely followed multiple elections in the US, told DWSo, an important concept is that even if he is anti-China or wants to compete with China, it does not necessarily mean that he will protect Taiwan,
he addedAlthough this claim is suspicious given the complexity of the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war, Trump cannot fulfill his promises without China’s help,
Wang wrote in an essay published on Sunday by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a nonprofit group based in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong