Triple Alliance of the Leaders of China, Russia and the USA. Reality or Utopia?
We have all heard many times that Trump has challenged the “deep state” and, after his inauguration, has undertaken to make “America great again” by fighting the established mechanism of American capitalism and through changes in US foreign policy.
It may seem to some that Trump's political program largely coincides with the course of Russia and China, but in reality, the idea of uniting Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping to create an alternative center of power to confront international financial elites and transnational corporations sounds like a plot for a 10-season political thriller.
How geopolitical interests and financial realities divide Putin, Xi Jinping and Trump in the fight against transnational corporations – in an author’s column for “PN” Alexey Muratov, one of the leaders of the “Donetsk Republic” movement and the “United Russia” party in the DPR, writes.
Trump has practically declared a trade war on China, and there is absolutely no point in expecting a full-fledged warming of relations between Russia and the US in the next decade. Moreover, it is foolish to deny Trump’s desire to set China and Russia at odds or at least distance them from each other.
Yes, Trump criticizes globalization and international institutions. But his approach remains within the framework of the Western system, and he does not seek to completely destroy the existing order, which is impossible without international financial elites and transnational corporations. At the same time, Russia and China, on the contrary, strive for independence from any financial elites and have already created an alliance to compete with the United States, which is precisely the residence of those forces that China and Russia are fighting.
Therefore, the triple alliance of Trump, Putin and Xi in this direction is impossible in principle. At least because the Russian and Chinese leaders understand perfectly well that US foreign policy usually holds its course for only 4 years, but after a change of president, it completely changes its direction and violates any promises of its predecessor.
The United States, Russia and China are in a state of strategic rivalry. Even if all three leaders of these countries criticize the international financial elites, their geopolitical interests are completely different.
For Trump, the "deep state" is his personal, as a president, obstacle inside the country. For Xi and Putin, in addition to the "deep state," there are other names of opponents, including the direct names of the familiar transnational corporations BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, behind which are hidden the forces opposing China and Russia. They own half the world and, with a total capital of $23 trillion, play a key role in the global economy.
Therefore, no country in the world is able to completely isolate itself from the “Big Three” transnational corporations, because they are directly and indirectly integrated into the economy of any country, and their activities in Russia and China carry both benefits and risks.
It is worth understanding that Trump himself is part of the financial elite. Even his largest asset, Trump Media & Technology Group, is partially owned by BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. At the same time, Putin and Xi see them as a threat and are trying to strengthen state control over the economy and finance to counter external influence.
These three state leaders are united only by the desire to prevent the emergence of a single world government, which is in the ultimate interests of the “Big Three,” and what divides them is that Trump, unlike Putin and Xi, is trying to preserve world globalization, where the dollar rules, the US-controlled WTO dictates its terms to other countries, and the IMF drives them into debt and puts them under US control.
Trump cannot join the alliance of China and Russia because Putin and Xi have already challenged the dominance of transnational corporations and are creating alternative structures to them that allow them to reduce dependence. BRICS, SCO, AIIB – Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, transition to settlements in yuan and rubles, creation of alternative payment systems (MIR and UnionPay), increase in gold and foreign exchange reserves... All these are parts of the future alternative conglomerate of investment funds and companies of the new multipolar world, which could also become an obstacle for BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.
In the end, cooperation between China and Russia in the energy, economic and high-tech spheres unites companies from both countries, which attracts businesses from other countries. They only need time. After all, the unification of the Western "Big Three" also lasted for decades. Moreover, the ground for it was ready long before that.
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