Beijing during January 30-31 between Washington, Russia, China, France and UK failed to preserve the commitment to prohibit intermediate range nuclear weapons.. ... Washington is leaving the treaty because Washington wants military hegemony over Russia..…

Washington “must be paying the devil in oil,” he added. . For their part, China and Russia, who have significant oil contracts with PDVSA, also reacted to Washington’s move, while internationally the price of oil remained steady. . ..…

After Nixon’s famous engagement with China in the early 1970s, Washington treated it as an ally against Russia. Once the Cold War ended and US-China relations resumed after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the United States celebrated a neoliberal honeymoon with China,..…

As Achcar goes on to point out, the region is also important to the U.S. because of its concerns about increasing military and economic cooperation between Russia and China. Washington hopes that a U.S. military presence at “the heart of the landmass extending from European..…