US President Donald Trump departed Friday night for a high-stakes, three-stop tour of Asia, with the diplomatic swing immediately overshadowed by North Korea’s nuclear threat and a rapidly escalating trade war with Beijing. Amid the flurry of trade negotiations, officials and experts in Washington have inserted a critical and sensitive geopolitical objective: forcing China to curb its purchase of Russian oil, a move designed to starve Moscow’s war machine in Ukraine. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow

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