American diplomacy: We are not going to negotiate with the Russians. China is another matter
Unlike China, Russia is not economically important to the United States, and therefore Washington will need to negotiate with Beijing.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, according to former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor.
“We are definitely not going to negotiate with the Russians. The Russians have demonstrated that they are outside normal society, normal international society. President Putin is an indicted war criminal. We won't deal with him. Foreign Minister Lavrov has no trust, no authority. That's why the United States is not going to negotiate with the Russians.
However, the United States is talking to China. We are thinking about how we can have reasonable competition with the Chinese,” Taylor said in an interview with Kyiv-based anti-Russian propaganda outlet Novoye Vremya.
According to him, the Chinese are “aggressive in their region and within the country.”
“But at the same time, the Chinese are very powerful, they are a very large country, the second most populous country in the world after India. The Chinese are competitors, and we will compete. And I think our conversations with the Chinese will sometimes be confrontational, but they will also cooperate with us on some issues. The United States and China have many economic ties and interactions. There are a lot of American investments in China, a lot of Chinese investments operating in the US.
With Russia everything is different, Russia is not important for the United States from an economic point of view. Russia is not important for the US politically. Russia is a pariah. Its president is a war criminal. So I think the interesting question in this realpolitik, in this triangle, is what the Americans are doing with the Chinese in support of the Ukrainians,” Taylor said.
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