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Alaska Summit: How Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Oil, Banking, and Diplomacy Is Redrawing the Global Chessboard

Alaska Summit: How Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Oil, Banking, and Diplomacy Is Redrawing the Global Chessboard
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk during the group photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, on Nov. 11, 2017. Jorge Silva/Reuters File Photo
Tanvi Ratna
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When President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Anchorage on Aug. 15, their handshake will make headlines. But the real story runs deeper—a summer-long campaign of calibrated pressure that has pulled two major powers, and their strategic partners, into the same room.

Tanvi Ratna
Tanvi Ratna
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Tanvi Ratna is the founder of emerging tech policy think tank Policy 4.0. She was formerly on Capitol Hill in the GOP House Foreign Affairs Committee and also worked on campaign strategy for Prime Minister Modi. You can follow her work on X and Substack.