The US government's talks with Russia are more about China than Ukraine. Donald Trump admitted he wants to "un-unite" Russia and China, in a reverse of the divide-and-conquer strategy used by Nixon and Kissinger in the 1970s. Can Trump do it? Ben Norton explains why the United States sees China as the main threat to its global imperial dominance.

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0:00 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia & China

0:18 US-Russia talks

1:01 USA says China is 'greatest threat'

2:11 (CLIP) Trump on Russia & China

3:31 US dollar dominance

4:14 Divide & conquer

5:23 Nixon in China

6:06 Kissinger strategy

6:59 Trump's neocons

7:57 (CLIP) Marco Rubio: partner with Russia

8:20 Ally with Russia against China?

9:37 (CLIP) Tucker Carlson on Russia

11:01 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on Russia

11:42 Marco Rubio on Ukraine & China

12:34 Rubio: China challenges US-led order

13:05 Rubio: China wants to displace USA

13:40 Rubio: China is "greatest challenge"

14:20 China more powerful than Russia

14:40 Population

14:54 Economy

15:31 Manufacturing

15:58 Technology

16:56 Research

17:19 China's alternative

18:08 Competition to Silicon Valley

18:55 Russia's strengths

20:02 Brzezinski's warnings

20:49 BRICS & SCO

22:21 (CLIP) CIA director John Ratcliffe

23:21 CIA on China "threat"

25:07 (CLIP) Blinken on China "challenge"

25:31 Mike Pompeo on China

26:14 US imperialism & Panama Canal

27:15 Monroe Doctrine

27:46 Europe

29:03 JD Vance

30:04 US colonialism in Ukraine

32:41 (CLIP) Trump wants to expand USA

33:10 Imperial expansion

33:44 European right wing

34:45 Can Trump divide Russia & China?

35:09 Putin's rise to power

35:55 (CLIP) Bush on Putin

36:30 Russia tried to join the West

37:31 Russia's fall out with the West

38:07 Ukraine war context

38:39 Russia-China relations

39:41 Sanctions relief?

40:28 Security guarantees?

41:56 Can USA be trusted?

43:25 Is there a possibility?

46:36 Outro