President Donald Trump said on the campaign trail he wanted to "un-unite" the alliance between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
But the immensely complex geopolitical dynamic has prompted questions about whether Trump can pull a "reverse Kissinger" and prompt a modern-day version of the Sino-Soviet split.
"I think there's many ways this alliance could be fractured," Fred Fleitz, who served as a deputy assistant to Trump and chief of staff of the National Security Council during the president’s first term, told Fox News Digital.
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Fleitz pointed to the recent talks between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his Chinese counterparts in Stock...