The White home has a problem with China, and the Asia Pacific region should be the least of its worries — at least for now. Russian president Vladimir Putin may besides have a problem with China. His current hard situation in Ukraine sent him the ability to read intentions of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Elbridge Colby, Undersecretary of defence for Political Affairs of the United States, may be right about China's threat — only that it confuses the continent and priorities of action.
War in Ukraine is for China Substitution war against the United StatesAnd Russia is their tool.
China and Russia have worked together since the beginning of the war, when, according to the Western intelligence report, "Chinese officials asked high-ranking Russian officials to wait until the end of the Beijing Olympic Games before the invasion of Ukraine began".
Taiwan and the unification of China may be main prize. But before the Chinese can choice her up, they must meet certain conditions. Patience is an advantage. Trump and Biden's administrations were very agreeable, as was Putin.
For now, Beijing's mark seems to be fragmentation of NATO alliance by undermining his trust in the support of the United States, weakening and reducing the military possible of the US and Russia by means of another "eternal war" and expanding uncertainty among US allies about his engagement in Taiwan and another bilateral safety agreements in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Fighting Russia
As part of the latest effort to weaken the NATO alliance Russian drones entered Polish airspaceBut this time the planes reacted and shot them down. This effect resulted in reliance on Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treatyand the incidental will be submitted to the North Atlantic Council for discussion. However, NATO's bureaucratic slowness will now be full visible.
It is not expected that Hungary or Slovakia, and so NATO, will support further action against Russia. Poland experienced this earlier erstwhile the United Kingdom and France, announcing the Nazi war to the Germans, did not stand up for it in September 1939.
The Pentagon's proposal to give precedence to the protection of the homeland and the Western Hemisphere in the draft presented to the Secretary of War last week besides serves to strengthen this narrative.
For president Donald Trump, it becomes increasingly apparent that Putin is not curious in any truce. nor the western version of peace in Ukraine. Through peace the Russian means surrender — unconditional surrender.
He clearly made this clear in China last week, declaring that he would "end the war by force" if Ukraine did not agree to his demands. “Peace will only be possible if Ukraine joins Russia as a region with territory status,” added Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Trump Contusion
Putin decided to stay on his current course — carrying hundreds of victims a week. His cost calculation is not measured by the lives of his soldiers, but alternatively by the ability to keep the economy. Putin is counting on Ukraine's army to break down before his economy, and has taken action to guarantee that it remains on the surface.
At 25. Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SHOW) In 2025, in Tiancin, China, he sought financial support to last the storm of EU sanctions and possible US sanctions. China, North Korea, Iran, India, Hungary and Slovakia — all these countries are curious in Russia's victory. any more than others.
However, what most likely irritated Trump most was Xi's behaviour during the summit of SzOW.
Trump watched 3 friends — Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un — photographed together during the Beijing military parade commemorating the end of planet War II.
Trump's reaction was immediate. president attacked on social media: “Please give my most heartfelt greetings to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, who are plotting against the United States of America.”
Russian president Vladimir Putin and China leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, 2 September 2025.ALEXANDER KAZAKOV / AFP
In a separate post on fact Social, he added: “We seem to have lost India and Russia to the deepest, darkest China. Let them have a long and successful future together!”
A drop that sheds the spell of bitterness
However, the Chinese agreement concerning pipeline Power Siberia 2 was a drop that sheds the spell of bitterness. Gazprom president Alexey Miller announced that the Russian company and China National Petroleum corp had signed a "legally binding" agreement to build a gas pipeline to China.
After completion, the gas pipeline will increase "by 50 billion cubic metres per year the export capacity of the Russian gas pipeline network, complementing 38 billion cubic metres presently transported by the first Siberian Power Line from east Siberia". This. Isolating China from the United States and will supply Kremlin with much-needed revenue, which, according to energy analyst Sergei Wakulenko, amounted to between 2.5 billion and 4.3 billion dollars (from 9 billion to 15 billion PLN) per year.
The US president besides utilized financial agreements as an incentive to get Putin to negociate and end the war in Ukraine.
In mid-August, during President's gathering with Putin in Alaska, the Reuter Agency reported that “the representatives of the governments of the United States and Russia discussed on the margins of negotiations respective energy agreements aimed at achieving peace in Ukraine. These agreements were presented as an incentive for the Kremlin to consent to peace in Ukraine and for Washington to mitigate sanctions against Russia."
"Russia wants to trade on a large scale with the United States erstwhile this catastrophic “slaughter” ends, and I agree. Russia has a large chance to make a immense number of jobs and wealth. Her possible is unlimited. Similarly, Ukraine can benefit enormously from trade in the process of rebuilding its country. Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately," wrote the president on X in May.
Trump has no influence
In February, after the summit G7, wrote that he had "serious talks with Putin about the end of the war, as well as crucial transactions concerning economical improvement that will take place between the United States and Russia". “The talks are going very well!” he added.
Trump blames Zelenski for further resistance, Europe for supporting Ukraine and now Xi for allowing Russia to proceed the war in Ukraine. However, the president of the United States must realise that he had no influence on the situation from the beginning.
U.S. president Donald Trump, Washington, 12 September 2025.Yasin Ozturk / AFP
What started as a partnership between Putin and Xi has evolved into a dependency. Xi became a dollmaker.
Another call to Putin and another gathering with European leaders in Washington will not solve the problem. That's more than that. Einstein had a word for it — madness.
This only puts the problem off for later, for another predetermined time erstwhile Putin continues to bomb Ukraine. Only 7 September Russia launched 13 ballistic missiles, 810 drones and lures, hitting the seat of the Ukrainian government and residential districts in Kiev.
The policy of concessions won't work.
Ukraine does not request to perceive to British Prime Minister Keira Starmera, who says: “These cowardly attacks show that Putin believes he can act unpunished. He does not take peace seriously. Now more than ever, we must powerfully support Ukraine and its sovereignty."
“I am not happy with the full situation. I'm not happy with them. I am not satisfied with anything that has to do with this war," Trump told journalists.
The problem is not in them, but in Putin. The solution is not to push Zelenski and Europe, but to get Putin to halt the attacks.
Isolationism is not the solution either. Higher-ranking military officers, professional diplomats and intelligence experts must take the initiative and give president Trump reasonable advice on Russia and China he needs — alternatively than those that his political advisors give him.
Time to believe Putin and Kadyrov. The policy of concessions did not work, no words or action by president Trump prevented further Russian attacks on Ukraine.
It's time for decisive action. destruct Russia from the equation, and you will deprive China of its influence.
