Bangladesh, Aug. 18 -- US President Donald Trump has once again placed his predecessor Joe Biden in the crosshairs of blame for the shifting global balance of power, arguing that the former Democratic administrations foreign policy failures have driven Russia and China closer together. Speaking in the aftermath of his high-profile summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15, Trump told Fox News that Bidens approach had created an unnatural alliance between two countries he described as “natural enemies.”

In the interview with Sean Hannity, Trump was sharply critical of the Biden-era sanctions policies, which simultaneously targeted Moscow over the war in Ukraine and Beijing over technology exports. ...