Zhao Long: Is Beijing Worried about US-Russia Rapprochement?

This week, our guest is Zhao Long, Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Strategic and Security Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. We discuss the prospects of the US splitting Russia from China and China peeling Europe away from the US, among other subjects. Time Stamps: • 00:55 Is Beijing worried about a US-Russia rapprochement? • 24:36 Can China profit from a transatlantic rift? • 34:24 What part will China play in a Ukraine settlement? • 40:22 What lessons did Beijing draw from the Trump-Zelensky spat in the Oval Office? *The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM. **The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.