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How Trump could ‘un-unite’ the Xi-Putin alliance
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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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Tatarstan Republic, Russia. (Getty Images)
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Fleitz pointed to the recent talks between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his Chinese counterparts in Stockholm and said that pushing China to stop purchasing Russian oil or face tariffs was one route that could be effective in trying to drive a wedge.
But Chinese officials have doubled down in their support for Moscow, and in a July meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wany Yi and EU diplomatic chief Kaja Kallas, Fox News Digital confirmed that the Chinese official made clear it is not in China’s interest to see Russia lose the war.
The Chinese embassy did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions regarding what Beijing would consider a «loss» for Russia or why it is in China’s interest to see Russia win in its illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Presidents Xi, Trump and Putin (Reuters )
But reports have suggested that China fears Russia losing the war or, at minimum, a cessation of hostilities would free up the U.S. and its allies to focus more heavily on China.
Fleitz argued the core strategy in breaking up the Putin-Xi alliance, which the two have publicly vowed is rock solid, should not focus on attempting to push China away from Russia.
«The Russians and Chinese do not like each other,» Fleitz argued, pointing to a 2023 move by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources when it called for historical Chinese names to be included next to the current Russian names on maps depicting its eastern border areas. «The Chinese actually have changed their maps in the Far East to add Chinese names to Russian cities because someday, I think, China is giving the message they’re going to take back Russian territories in the Far East.
«We need to make this point to Putin. He has a far better future for Russia, reintegrating into the West and Europe as a state in good standing rather than falling into the arms of the Chinese, who do not have the best interests of Russia at heart,» Fleitz, who serves as vice chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security, said.
Trump said prior to Tuesday’s phone call with Putin that «many elements of a final agreement have been agreed to, but much remains» regarding ending the war in Ukraine. (Kremlin Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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The theory that cozying up to Putin could be the ticket in breaking up his alliance with Xi has been dubbed the «reverse Kissinger» in a nod to Henry Kissinger who, starting in 1972 alongside President Richard Nixon, improved relations with China in a move to further isolate the USSR.
Trump, to some extent, has already tried this approach, as witnessed by his insistence that diplomacy was the best way forward with Putin, his initial reproach of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as «ungrateful» and his apparent understanding of why Putin invaded Ukraine when it came to supposed threats posed by NATO.
Putin’s war aims have thus far been undeterred and China, which for years took a publicly neutral position when it came to the war in Ukraine, has increasingly voiced its support of Russia despite Western pressure.
But Fleitz argued this strategy will take time.
«It’s going to be hard,» he said. «But, first of all, our policy with Russia started off in a bad situation for Trump.
«There was no dialog between Putin and Biden after Russia invaded Ukraine,» Fleitz added, noting that despite surface-level commentary, strife between Russia and China is brewing.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend an official welcome ceremony in Beijing, China, May 16, 2024. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Reports in June leaked by the Russian intelligence agency known as the FSB apparently showed that Moscow has dubbed Beijing «the enemy» and is aware of its efforts to gain access to top military technologies by recruiting Russian spies, often disillusioned Russian scientists.
While reporting has suggested that Russia views China as a strategic partner to counter the West, Beijing is known for playing the long game, and Moscow’s dependence on the Chinese Communist Party as one of its few allies could prove a future vulnerability for it.
«There are press articles coming out lately about how China is spying on Russia and taking advantage of this relationship to advance Chinese security,» Fleitz said. «We need to make this point to the Russians at every opportunity — the Chinese are not your friend.
«You need to make a deal with Donald Trump.»
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Trump administration puts key Biden-era immigration policy on notice: ‘Unsustainable cycle’
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The Trump administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow it to terminate the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the U.S.
It’s the latest effort by the administration to unwind Biden-era protections of hundreds of thousands of migrants living in the U.S. as part of the president’s hard-line immigration enforcement agenda.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the high court Wednesday to immediately intervene and overturn a lower court order that blocked the administration’s effort to immediately revoke the temporary protected status designation for some 350,000 Haitian migrants living in the U.S.
A majority of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit also blocked the Trump administration’s bid to end the program, citing the «substantial» and «well-documented harms» the migrants would likely face as a result, clearing the way for the administration to appeal the case to the high court.
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The Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
In his filing Wednesday, Sauer urged the Supreme Court to review more broadly the issue of whether the Trump administration can revoke TPS protections for other migrants living in the U.S.
«Unless the court resolves the merits of these challenges — issues that have now been ventilated in courts nationwide — this unsustainable cycle will repeat again and again, spawning more competing rulings and competing views of what to make of this court’s interim orders,» Sauer said Wednesday. «This court should break that cycle.»
The TPS program in question allows individuals from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other «extraordinary and temporary conditions.»
Haitians were first granted TPS status in 2010 after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left some 1.5 million in the country homeless.
The protections were extended several times, including under the Biden administration in 2021 after the July assassination of Jovenel Moïse, Haiti’s last democratically elected president.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced in November that the U.S. would be ending TPS protections for Haitians in the U.S., prompting a group of individuals living in the U.S. with protected status to file suit.
The Trump administration’s Supreme Court filing marks the second time this year the administration has asked the high court to immediately intervene and allow it to strip TPS protections for certain migrants.
Lawyers for the Justice Department also asked the Supreme Court last month to allow it to revoke TPS designations for Syrian migrants in the U.S., though the high court has yet to rule on that request.
The appeal comes just weeks after U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked the Department of Homeland Security from immediately revoking the TPS designations for Haitians in the U.S.
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D. John Sauer, nominee to be solicitor general, testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building Feb. 26, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Reyes described the administration’s effort to abruptly wind down the designation as «arbitrary and capricious» and accused DHS Secretary Kristi Noem of failing to consider the «overwhelming evidence of present danger» in Haiti, which she noted had prompted the Biden administration to extend TPS protections for Haitians in the first place.
«The government cannot name a single concrete harm from maintaining the status quo,» Reyes said. «And so instead it argues that the court’s decision is ‘an improper intrusion by a federal court into the workings of a coordinate branch of the government.’»
The appeal comes as the Trump administration has sought to wind down most TPS designations, arguing the programs have been extended for too long under Democratic presidents.
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Trump officials have also taken aim at lower courts that have sought to block or pause their efforts to wind down TPS protections, accusing the lower court judges of exceeding their authority and unlawfully intruding on the executive branch’s authority on immigration policy.
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Guerra en Medio Oriente: más de 30 países liberan 400 millones de barriles de petróleo para contener la suba de precios
Más de 30 países acordaron por unanimidad liberar 400 millones de barriles de petróleo, que tenían en sus reservas, en un intento por frenar la escalada de precios originada por la guerra en Medio Oriente.
Así lo decidieron los 32 países miembros de la Agencia Internacional de la Energía (AIE), en lo que la entidad catalogó como el mayor desbloqueo de reservas de emergencia en su historia.
Este miércoles, el precio del petróleo Brent subía 4,7% y se acercaba a los US$92 por barril. Horas atrás de la medida de la AIE, Irán amenazó que el valor del crudo internacional rondaría los US$200.
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“Los países de la AIE pondrán 400 millones de barriles de petróleo (…) a disposición del mercado para compensar la pérdida de suministro por el cierre efectivo del estrecho de Ormuz”, anunció el director ejecutivo de la agencia, Fatih Birol.
“Se trata de una acción de gran envergadura que tiene como objetivo mitigar los efectos inmediatos de la perturbación de los mercados. Pero, para que quede claro, lo más importante para el retorno a unos flujos estables de petróleo y gas es la reanudación del tránsito por el estrecho de Ormuz”, afirmó el directivo.
Según Birol, las reservas de emergencia se pondrán a disposición del mercado según un calendario adaptado a la situación de cada país miembro y se complementarán con medidas de emergencia adicionales en algunas naciones. Nuevos recortes en la producción mundial de crudo (Foto: Reuters)
La guerra en Oriente Medio, que comenzó el 28 de febrero, afecta el comercio de petróleo a través del estrecho de Ormuz, un punto de paso crucial por el que transitan cada día 15 millones de barriles de petróleo y otros 5 millones de barriles diarios de productos petrolíferos, lo que representa aproximadamente el 25% del transporte mundial de petróleo por vía marítima.
Los miembros de la AIE poseen más de 1200 millones de barriles en sus reservas de emergencia, a los que se suman 600 millones de barriles de reservas en manos de la industria en virtud de obligaciones gubernamentales.
El anuncio de la AIE llegó mientras los líderes del G7, de las economías más avanzadas del mundo, estudian medidas para frenar las consecuencias económicas de la guerra entre Estados Unidos e Israel con Irán.
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Los dirigentes del G7 tienen previsto reunirse por videoconferencia este miércoles para “tratar seguramente” el tema de las reservas energéticas, según el ministro francés de Economía, Roland Lescure.
En ese marco, Japón -cuyas reservas estratégicas de petróleo se encuentran entre las mayores del mundo- y Alemania afirmaron que también recurrirían a sus reservas de crudo.
La liberación coordinada de reservas de la AIE es la sexta en la historia de la institución, creada en 1974.
En 1991, antes de la guerra del Golfo, ya se llevaron a cabo acciones colectivas similares, así como en 2005, tras los huracanes Katrina y Rita, en 2011, con motivo de la guerra civil libia, y en dos ocasiones tras la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia en 2022.
Nueva advertencia de Irán: “Esperen un barril de petróleo a US$200”
Irán advirtió este miércoles que no será posible bajar el precio del petróleo mediante “medidas artificiales” y que se puede esperar, por la presión que han impuesto en el estrecho de Ormuz, que el precio del barril suba a 200 dólares. Hoy, el barril Brent se ubicaba por encima de US$90.
“Deben saber que no podrán bajar el precio del petróleo y de la energía mediante medidas artificiales. Con la expansión de la guerra en la región, ya advertimos que pueden esperar un barril de petróleo de 200 dólares, porque el precio del petróleo depende de la seguridad en la región, y ustedes son la fuente de esa inseguridad», afirmó el portavoz del Cuartel General Central de Jatam al-Anbia, Ebrahim Zolfagari.
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After deliberating and assessing the global oil market situation in the face of Middle Eastern conflicts stemming from the United States’ attack on Iran, a cohort of 32 different developed nations agreed to make an «unprecedented» move to help address «oil market challenges.»
The International Energy Agency (IEA) held an emergency meeting at its Paris headquarters Tuesday, with energy representatives from the cohort of G7 countries, to «assess market conditions,» which IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol says «have been significantly affected by the conflict in the Middle East.»
Following that meeting on Thursday, the 32 member countries of the IEA unanimously agreed to collectively release the largest quantity of emergency oil reserves they ever have as a coalition, amounting to 400 million barrels.
«The oil market challenges we are facing are unprecedented in scale, therefore, I am very glad that IEA Member countries have responded with an emergency collective action of unprecedented size,» Birol said following the announcement about the release of the emergency oil reserves. «Oil markets are global, so the response to major disruptions needs to be global too.»
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International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol in Paris on March 10, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump touted the IEA agreement during remarks in Kentucky Wednesday afternoon, saying the move «will substantially reduce oil prices.»
Before the outbreak of war with Iran, oil was trading in the range of $60 to $70 a barrel, but prices soared after the conflict began, with crude oil futures reaching upward of $115 a barrel on Monday – the highest level since 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. However, some experts suggest that the market is correcting itself already from an initial scare that the conflict in the Middle East would have a major impact on oil prices.
«The market realized that maybe things aren’t that bad – the U.S. is having incredible military victories, President Trump is saying, ‘Hey, you know what, the war is probably not going to be going on that long.’ And even some signals that the world doesn’t have to just sit and stand and take it,» said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group and a FOX Business contributor.
The members of the IEA hold emergency stockpiles of over 1.2 billion barrels, and a further 600 million barrels of oil industry stocks. This coordinated release of an unprecedented amount of oil will be the sixth in its roughly half-century history. Previous collective action was taken in 1991, 2005, 2011 and twice in 2022.
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The previous record for the largest collective action was the latest release of emergency oil stocks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In combination, the two actions, which took place in March and April 2022, respectively, amounted to a release of 182.7 million barrels, according to the IEA.
House Republicans are pushing the U.S. to keep a close eye on Russian oil giant Lukoil’s international divestments as the conflict in Iran drives up U.S. gas prices. Russia and Iran are close allies. (Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images; Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
President Trump said repeatedly this week during remarks to the press that the war in Iran would be over shortly, but stopped short of providing an exact timeline.
In his comments to the press Wednesday, President Trump quipped that «We don’t want to leave early, do we?»
«We gotta finish the job, right? Over the past 11 days, our military has virtually destroyed Iran,» Trump said. «It’s a tough country.»
Iran’s ongoing retaliatory attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime choke point for oil transportation, has led to questions about what they will do to prices at the pump. Trump Cabinet official, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, scoffed this week at claims that the Trump administration was caught off guard by how much Trump’s military actions have impacted the oil market and responded to questions about the impact of attacks on the Strait of Hormuz.
A screenshot of a marine traffic terminal showing vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on March 4, 2026. (Kpler/Marine Traffic)
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«As you know better than anybody else, it’s a global market, so we could be producing more, or other countries could be producing more, but it all goes into one vat where we get the prices from,» said Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade. «So if the Strait of Hormuz presents a challenge, how could you circumvent that challenge?»
In response, Burgum slammed Iran for «holding the entire world hostage economically by threatening to close the strait.»
«President Trump has made it very clear the consequences if they try to do that,» he continued. «There’s a lot of options between ourselves and our allies in the region, including our Arab friends in the region, to make sure that those straits remain open and energy keeps flowing through the global economy.»
Fox Business’ Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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