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Look. Over here we were all rooting for Trump to win. Whatever Trump does, whatever happens here, we have no doubt Clinton would be much worse for us - that's basically a given. It's obvious he'll try to gain Russia on his side in his fight against China, but let me repeat it - Russia is an asset, not a player.

There's no reason to regard Russia any more as an asset as China. Quite the opposite in fact.