“It can be seen that the line of dominance of the American state and the American way of life, the American understanding of the way of life of other countries will continue, the containment of both China and Russia will certainly figure on the foreign policy agenda,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
According to him, the United States is currently discussing how "to make sure that Russia and China do not unite so much that they will feel more powerful than America itself."
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that the new US sanctions against Russian companies generally fit into Washington's general line of containing Russia.