Opinion: U.S. needs to break the Russia-China alliance
One year into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia is a pariah to most countries in the free world. But to China, Russia is one of its most important allies.
This guiding principle puts all free nations around the world at risk, and necessitates that the United States — as the leader of global democracies — articulates a coherent foreign policy strategy for navigating the inherent dangers of the deepening relationship between the two revisionist powers. While Russia desperately needs China to stabilize its economy amid unprecedented sanctions, President Xi’s calculus is that Russia is useful ballast in his larger battle with the U.S. and our allies. Further, if Putin is defeated in Ukraine, China will likely lose access to cheap Russian energy, and will have a mercurial, humiliated and nuclear-armed dictator on its northern border.
I have previously written about the forces that have driven the burgeoning alliance between China and Russia, including in “The Russia-China Axis: The New Cold War and America’s Crisis” as well as “The End of Democracy? Russia and China on the Rise, America in Retreat.” While President Biden has thus far led an impressively strong and united NATO response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there are signs that public support for the war is fading, as just 20% of Americans now say the U.S. is not doing enough to support Ukraine, less than half of the share of Americans who said that one year ago , per recent polling.
Immediately, the Biden administration can send a strong message to Beijing and Moscow by ramping up the number of U.S. soldiers we have stationed in Asia, as a deterrent to Chinese designs on Taiwan.
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