Trump Wants Putin To ࢀ˜Join Forcesࢀ™ On China, Former Adviser Says

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump would focus in a second term on getting Russian President Vladimir Putin to side with him in his confrontation with China, a former adviser said. Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and formerly the top Russia and Europe adviser on Trump’s National Security Council, also suggested that this goal was behind the president’s push earlier this year to invite Putin to the next meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations. “Trump is really wanting to have Putin join forces [on China],” Hill said in an hour-long discussion on October 27…