USA and China: Fight for leadership in Eurasia

The true meaning of the "One belt, one way" for China in economic expansion in Eurasia and in economic hegemony on the continent. At the same time, China is trying to expand its zone of influence by drawing into the project not only Russia or the Central Asian countries, but also US allies in Europe and the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and other countries of the Persian Gulf. Pakistan has already become de facto more controlled by China than by the United States.

Russian participation in the Chinese project is connected both with the inertia of thinking in the style of "peripheral realism" and the desire to maximize the benefits of participation in a new hegemonic system, and with an objective weakness in the economic sense. Russia can play a serious role in global politics, but not at the expense of economic power, but primarily due to a combination of natural resources, military power (often on a Soviet basis) and strategic position in the Heartland of Eurasia. China misses a lot of these, which makes the alliance of the two countries the foundation of the new order in Eurasia.

Russia, which is pushed towards closer cooperation with China  by the aggressive hysteria of the American establishment, is also interested in establishing relations with the US, seeking at least to use the "Trump factor" at least minimally, providing itself with more room for maneuver in relations with both the Chinese and the Americans. The fact that, despite this hysteria, the US president not only refuses to meet with representatives of Russia (Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov), but also takes risks, giving Russia important intelligence data, indicates that at least the president of the United States would like to cooperate with Russia and, if possible, to distance Moscow from Beijing.