From what I've read on the topic, the likelihood of the Trump administration achieving a "reverse Nixon" looks somewhere between very difficult and impossible.
The notion of splitting the no-limits Axis of Russia-China is a mendacious fraud perpetrated by Maga Putin fanpunks and collaborator ex-generals peddling racist tropes. Nor is the Trump kleptocracy capable of a finessed strategy, or disloyalty to their Kremlin handlers. At best, PRC surprise at the totality of Putin's capture of the American state will produce caution and rebalancing with other BRICS and EU to constrain worldwide Russian expansionism.
From what I've read on the topic, the likelihood of the Trump administration achieving a "reverse Nixon" looks somewhere between very difficult and impossible.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/the-myth-of-a-reverse-kissinger-why-aligning-with-russia-to-counter-china-is-a-strategic-illusion/
https://chinarussiareport.substack.com/p/attempting-a-reverse-kissinger-will
https://thebismarckcables.substack.com/p/on-the-attempt-to-pull-russia-from
https://thebismarckcables.substack.com/p/steel-man-argument-for-the-reverse
https://chinabusinessspotlight.substack.com/p/trump-russia-and-china-and-the-nixon
The notion of splitting the no-limits Axis of Russia-China is a mendacious fraud perpetrated by Maga Putin fanpunks and collaborator ex-generals peddling racist tropes. Nor is the Trump kleptocracy capable of a finessed strategy, or disloyalty to their Kremlin handlers. At best, PRC surprise at the totality of Putin's capture of the American state will produce caution and rebalancing with other BRICS and EU to constrain worldwide Russian expansionism.