Scary US scenario

 “The most terrible scenario for the United States is the unification of Beijing’s economic power and Russia's defense potential, in which case Washington will not exactly survive and not retain the lead on the eve of the global economic crisis that American analysts expect. This threat in the United States has long been spoken on the backstage level, and now the White House is trying to stir up disagreements between the PRC and Russia, ”Asafov said in an interview with RT.
For example, Washington’s great concern is Beijing and Moscow’s cooperation in using the Northern Sea Route - in the future, this route could become one of the main transport arteries for the delivery of Chinese goods to Europe, which the United States does not like at all. However, according to experts, the American side cannot prevent these plans, since we are talking about the Russian sphere of influence in the Arctic.

A month earlier, Donald Trump raised the Chinese theme in the framework of negotiations with Vladimir Putin.
“We have a huge number of topics that we need to discuss - very interesting topics, starting with issues such as trade, commerce, military issues, as well as topics related to China and nuclear policy. Let's talk about our mutual friend Xi (Jinping. - RT), ”said Trump, responding to a greeting from his Russian colleague.
Experts interpreted this remark as an attempt by the American leader to enlist the support of Moscow in the confrontation with Beijing.
Also, it was China that became the first country to which the United States applied sanctions under the Law on Countering America’s Opponents through Sanctions (CAATSA). In particular, restrictive measures were imposed on the armaments department of the Central Military Council of the PRC and its head Li Shanfu. The basis for the sanctions was a contract for the purchase of Russian Su-25 and S-400 air defense missile systems.
China is a major importer of Russian weapons: in the 1990s, it was defense contracts with Beijing, along with New Delhi, that allowed the Russian defense industry to survive difficult times, experts say.

Beijing, who came under Western sanctions in the late 1980s, also needed these contracts: thanks in large part to Russian supplies, the Chinese side was able to modernize their army.
During this period, China accounted for about a third of Russian arms exports, the peak of deliveries was reached in 2005, and then the share of the PRC in the structure of Russian exports began to gradually decline. This trend is associated with the growth of the Chinese defense industry. However, countries continue to cooperate in a variety of ways. First of all, we are talking about such high-tech areas as aviation and air defense systems.
The Russian-Chinese partnership in the military-technical line received a new impetus after the events of 2014, when the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance returned to the rhetoric of the Cold War, introducing sanctions against Russia. Even then, in Beijing, it could have been supposed that similar attacks against China were only a matter of time.