How Trump and Harris Would Handle the China-Russia ‘Axis’

The next U.S. president is expected to navigate increasingly dangerous geopolitical waters as America’s two near peers, China and Russia, develop closer economic and military ties with one another and other rouge states.
So, how will the U.S. election affect the so-called China-Russia axis?
President Joe Biden continued his predecessor President Donald Trump’s policies of imposing tariffs, controlling strategic goods and technologies, diversifying U.S. supply chains, and tackling the inflow of fentanyl from China.
Compared with Biden, a foreign relations veteran, Vice President and Democrat candidate Kamala Harris is an unknown entity. Her policy, if she is elected, will also depend on the circumstances and the people she appoints to her Cabinet, but the general assumption is that Harris will continue the current U.S. policy of competing with China while avoiding direct conflicts.
One known difference between Harris and Biden is that Harris has maintained the U.S. strategy of ambiguity on Taiwan while Biden said the United States would defend Taiwan if Beijing tried to annex the self-ruled island by force.
Kremlin officials believe that “the American political establishment is fundamentally anti-Russian, and that will continue for some time, and that is really the framework in which they need to think about American politics and relations with the United States,” Graham told The Epoch Times.
Russia has been subject to international sanctions over its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and over its human rights violations.
Both the Obama and Trump administrations imposed hundreds of sanctions on Russian individuals and entities. The Biden administration added thousands to the list after Putin launched a full invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
One of the main differences between the Republican and Democratic parties is their views on the outcome of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump said several times that if elected, he would quickly end the war of attrition, hinting at his intention to broker a peace deal.