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How Trump’s Russia Sanctions Give Him the Upper Hand with China [[link removed]]

President Donald Trump’s latest sanctions on Russia target buyers of Russian oil and banks that finance this trade, including those in China, Hong Kong, and India. But will Trump keep the sanctions in place long enough to change the behavior of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping?

“It is vital that he stay the course,” argues Thomas Duesterberg [[link removed]] in The Washington Post [[link removed]].

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How Long Can Russia’s Weakening Economy Support Putin’s War on Ukraine? [[link removed]]

To further examine how Western sanctions have weakened Russia’s economy, Duesterberg [[link removed]] will host noted economists Anders Aslund and Volodymyr Lugovskyy for an event at Hudson [[link removed]] tomorrow, October 30, at 11:00 a.m.

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Asia Gets the Trump Treatment [[link removed]]

As Beijing helps prop up Putin and his war against Ukraine, Chinese power is growing across parts of Central Asia that Moscow once controlled.

Ahead of Trump’s summit with Xi, Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] argues [[link removed]] that the president “appears likely to return from his Pacific odyssey having secured a reasonable short-term compromise with China while advancing his plans for reshaping America’s role in the world.”

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A New Triple Entente Between India, Russia, and China [[link removed]]

Looking further south, Trump’s secondary sanctions on Russian oil purchases will strip India of a major source of discounted energy. And New Delhi has markedly improved its relations with Beijing since the nations’ last major border clash five years ago. A reset in India-China relations and a renewed Russia-India-China trilateral relationship is now on the table, warns Aparna Pande [[link removed]].

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Africa’s Role in Addressing America’s Critical Minerals Refining Vulnerability [[link removed]]

To remove one of China’s key economic levers in trade negotiations, the US needs to address its vulnerabilities in the critical minerals sector. Hudson’s Joshua Meservey [[link removed]] hosted senior representatives [[link removed]] from three firms on the frontier of this industry to discuss how the US government can better support domestic and allied refining—and the role African nations can play.

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Before you go . . .

Though Trump’s conversation with Xi will likely center around economic and trade issues, the president should not forget about the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing human rights violations, including the recent detention of 21 leaders of Zion Church. Hudson Fellow Bill Drexel [[link removed]] and his wife Grace Jin Drexel, son-in-law and daughter of arrested Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, appeared on PBS News Weekend [[link removed]] to discuss the latest news on this crackdown.

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