title: The US—Russia relations since Trump took office and China’s policy choices
abstract: Since Donald Trump took office in early 2017, US-Russian relations have not only failed to "unfreeze, " but have deteriorated even further with continued US sanctions against Russia and increasingly bitter "diplomatic wars, " "media wars, " and intensified geopolitical rivalry in the Middle East. The author of this paper proposes that continuous deterioration of US-Russian relations is not only the result of the disparity of power, mutual misalignment, and the sharp decline of mutual trust betwe
journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University International relations