December 04, 2024

How Donald Trump’s Push to End Ukraine War Tips His Hand on China, Russia and North Korea

Featuring: Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Source: South China Morning Post

Journalist: Kawala Xie

Trump has claimed he would end the war in one day and has stated far more favourable views of Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un than outgoing US President Joe Biden, who has depicted them as existential threats.

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Andrea Kendall-Taylor of the Centre for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, believed Trump’s possible concessions to Russia could embolden the Sino-Russian partnership.

Putin and Xi view the US as in an “inexorable decline and they’re going to lean in to accelerate that decline”, Kendall-Taylor told a panel at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, last month.

As a result, she added, if “Trump does end up significantly pressuring Ukraine to make unacceptable concessions, then I think it will only put wind in the sails of this axis of people”.

Read the full article on the South China Morning Post.

Author

  • Andrea Kendall-Taylor

    Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program

    Andrea Kendall-Taylor is a senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She works on national security ch...