“To draw, to push together two nuclear powers, Russia and China, it’s really a blunder of the highest order … The Russians had a million army troops built up on the Chinese border for a while, so to see them come together like this to me is just shocking,” Heritage Foundation senior fellow Michael Pillsbury told Fox & Friends in May 2024. Moreover, Biden’s sanctions against China appear to have backfired, driving up imports and exports from Russia to China from roughly $11 billion in April 2021 to over $19 billion as of April 2024, according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs. Iran, another partner in the anti-Western alliance, also emerged as a leading oil supplier for China during the Biden presidency, in large part because the Biden administration did not strongly enforce existing sanctions against the Iranian energy sector.
Author: Wallace White
Published at: 2025-05-07 22:26:30
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