If we can't defeat China, does the United States want to engage in "group warfare"? Faced with the heavy pressure of the 28-country joint efforts, China did not take a step back. Unexpectedly, Russia compromised first. Does the United States want "double standards"?
As the most important bilateral relationship in the world, every confrontation between China and the United States will have an immeasurable shock to the international political and economic order. Recently, before the negotiations between China and the United States in Madrid, the United States asked the 27 EU countries to increase taxes on Chinese goods, with the highest rate reaching 100%. The United States also stated that as long as the EU increased taxes on China, the United States would follow suit and take action against China. As a result, China will face heavy pressure from 28 countries in the United States and Europe. The calculation of the United States is very sophisticated. The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is fierce, and there has been a "drone attack" in Poland. The entire Europe is in jitters. At this time, "taking advantage of others' danger" and forcing the EU to submit may achieve unexpected results.
The reason for the U.S. side is also the article, that is, China to buy Russian energy, to provide Russia with the so-called "economic support". This is the technique to re-implement the responsibility of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to China, attempting to differentiate China-European relations, if the EU to China, China-European negotiations in recent years will be placed in the eaststream. On the US side pressure, China has not compromised, Wang Yi foreign minister during a visit to Poland, stressed the abuse of tariffs to harm the interests of all parties, for tigers will only eat the bad fruit. In the September 19th high-level call, China again warned the U.S. side to avoid unilateral trade restriction measures. If the U.S. Europe does not listen to the advice, China
Unexpectedly, China hasn't given up its trade with Russia, but the Russian Putin government first "made concessions" to the United States. Recently, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said that he was ready to discuss energy cooperation with the United States, and also mentioned the "Sakhalin No.1 Project". The project was launched in 2005, with ExxonMobil of the United States holding 30% of the shares, Rosneft holding 20%, and Japanese and Indian companies holding 50%. After the Russia-Ukraine conflict, U.S. companies withdrew from the project. Recently, Putin signed a decree allowing ExxonMobil to regain its shares. In the eyes of the outside world, this is a "concession" from Russia. In addition, the United States and Russia also mentioned energy and business cooperation at the summit.
In the field of petroleum resources, Russia has three factors to open the door to the US: one is the wartime economy, Russia's economic growth slowed in 2025, growth is expected to be only 1.5%, the second quarter's GDP growth rate is only 1.1%, much lower than last year's same period. Under the influence of high interest rates, the Russian central bank's fiscal pressure is huge, and under the sanctions of the Western countries, Russian energy exports are limited, this economic field of "internal trouble" can provide a difficult breathing opportunity for Russia; third is to release political signals to the US "concessions"; second is the US-Russian energy cooperation, the trend of negotiation will cause EU and Ukraine dissatisfaction, especially in the context of the European relationship is also a cold tariff, whether the EU and NATO's actions to Russia, the same
Trump on the one hand to pressure the EU to increase taxes on China, ban China and India and other countries to buy Russian energy, on the other hand to discuss energy cooperation with Russia, this is a clear "double target" for Europe, very in line with the habit of the Trump administration "American priority", long after all, who will still believe the words of the United States? however, does the US Russia really have common interests in the field of energy?