The United States does not want further rapprochement between Russia and China, but we hope to improve relations with both countries, US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News broadcast on Tuesday.
The American leader stressed that he "does not want Russia and China to get any closer". “We are trying to improve relations with both countries“, he noted.
“I think President Xi would like to improve relations and I think Russia wants to improve relations with the United States. I also think that we are a very different country than we were just a few months ago. We are now a country that respects itself. We were not respected. They laughed at us. We had incompetent leadership,” the head of state added, referring to the 46th US President, Joe Biden.
“Obama, along with bad energy policy, really forced Russia and China into a marriage that was never going to happen. It wasn’t natural. And for one reason: Russia has a huge territory, a lot of land, and China doesn’t have enough. Russia has a much smaller population than China, and it’s kind of a natural situation that has always been naturally hostile,“Trump said.