www.zerohedge.com By Tyler Durden
Authored by Tanvi Ratna via The Epoch Times
When President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, many dismissed the summit as a spectacle. Yet beneath the optics, something deeper was unfolding: a strategic gambit aimed at weakening the foundations of the China–Russia relationship. If Nixon’s 1972 trip to Beijing cleaved China from the USSR, this administration is attempting a reverse maneuver—quietly driving a wedge between Moscow and Beijing.
But this time, the tools aren’t detente or ideological diplomacy. They’re economic coercion, targeted pressure, and the calibration of dependency.
The goal is clear: not to reshape alliances in public, but to make their costs visible in private.
Since the summit, a pattern has emerged—one that spans India, China, the EU, and Russia itself.
These theaters are distinct, but the pressure applied in each is coordinated…
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