Monica Crowley on Trump's 'Reverse Nixon' Strategy: Driving a Wedge Between Russia and China

Nixon's Strategic Opening to China

• 🚀 President Nixon's 1970s opening to China was a strategic move to counter the growing power of the Soviet Union.
• 💡 At the time, the US was constrained by the Vietnam War, and Nixon used China as a strategic counterweight.
• 🇨🇳 China treated Nixon like a rock star because he opened their doors to the rest of the world.

Trump's 'Reverse Nixon' Strategy

• 🎯 President Trump aims to implement a "reverse Nixon" strategy by improving relations with Moscow.
• 🇷🇺 The goal is to use Russia as a counterweight against the growing power of China.
• ⚠️ This strategy makes sense in light of recent events where Russia, China, and Iran have become aligned.

Biden's Foreign Policy Impact

• 📉 The Biden administration has inadvertently driven Russia and China together, a reversal of decades of US policy.
• 🧩 Presidents of both parties previously worked to keep these two countries apart.
• 🤦‍♂️ Crowley describes the current alignment as "madness."