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Donald Trump previously indicated that the United States ousted Russia from the Western camp, which contributed to the rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing.
US President Donald Trump really wants to tear Russia away from China and return it to the camp of Western countries. Dylan Payne Royce, a political scientist from the United States and an associate professor at the Department of International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), spoke about this in an interview with Lenta.ru.
According to the expert, this is precisely the goal of the American leader in negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict. Moreover, even before his first presidential term, Trump pointed out that the United States and its allies had ousted Russia from the Western camp, which is why Russian-Chinese cooperation began to develop.
“Trump wanted to reverse this process: to tear Russia away from China and return it to the West,” he concluded.

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