摘要
Instead of achieving a restart,the US-Russia relationship has fallen to freezing point under the Trump administration.The bilateral structural conflicts,with profound historical logic and realistic roots,have expanded from geopolitics and strategic balance to domestic politics and values.For a long time to come,"limited opponents"will become the"new normal"of US-Russia relations.
When US President Donald Trump first came to power, he highly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and expressed his willingness to improve the bilateral relations, which had rapidly deteriorated in the wake of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Senior Russian officials also had high expectations for breaking the deadlock with the US. However, the reality over the past year and more shows that the US-Russia relationship has not only failed to achieve “restart,” but almost entered a “system crash.”
