US President Donald Trump has once again placed his predecessor Joe Biden in the crosshairs of blame for the shifting global balance of power, arguing that the former Democratic administration’s foreign policy failures have driven Russia and China closer together. Speaking in the aftermath of his high-profile summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15, Trump told Fox News that Biden’s approach had created an unnatural alliance between two countries he described as “natural enemies.”

In the interview with Sean Hannity, Trump was sharply critical of the Biden-era sanctions policies, which simultaneously targeted Moscow over the war in Ukraine and Beijing over technology exports. “He [Biden] did something that was unthinkable,” Trump declared. “He drove China and Russia together. That’s not good… it’s the one thing you didn’t want to do. Because they are basically natural enemies.”

Trump’s claim rests on a long history of mistrust between Moscow and Beijing, particularly during the Cold War when the two communist powers often found themselves in bitter disputes over ideology, strategy, and territory. Despite sharing a border stretching thousands of kilometers, the relationship between the Soviet Union and China was far from smooth, culminating in military clashes along the Ussuri River in the late 1960s.

According to Trump, Russia’s expansive territory and abundant natural resources stand in stark contrast to China’s massive population and growing resource needs. He argued that under normal geopolitical conditions, these realities would make the two countries wary competitors, if not adversaries. “Russia has the land........

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