What Trump's Gamble on Putin Could Mean for China

Former U.S. President Richard Nixon famously reconciled with China's Communist leader Mao Zedong in a process that shut out the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War and deepened a Sino-Soviet split. U.S.-Russia talks in Riyadh aimed at ending Russia's war in Ukraine, have brought speculation that President Donald Trump could be orchestrating a "reverse Nixon" that might pull Russia away from China—which America has made clear it sees as its biggest long-term adversary. But dividing Moscow and Beijing would prove a mammoth task, experts on the subject say.

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