“They may not be interested in banking or finance with Russia...”
And that’s been a real interesting, and in many ways frightening, development that China and Russia adjoined diplomatic relations about the time the Soviet hold imploded in Russia around 1991. And this was after centuries of mistrust, posturing, aggression, and an occational small armed conflict. Together they have learned how to use each other’s resourses to change the power balance in the world.
Of course, it won’t be with military intervention as many places in the world have the capacity to wipe out the planet. But they mesh well in trade which posts a threat to other nations as Russia is now doing with their oil and natural gas control. And China is rapidly losing it’s war with taking care of their people as they continue to grow faster than they can stay up with and are now expanding into other countries. Japan had the same problem in the early 1940’s only they decided to fix it by force. And the US was and is one of targets with both financial and agricultural concerns. They may have discovered you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar and you can get nutrients out of honey at the same time. Course that also gets back to how many ways of skinning the cat, too.
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And China is rapidly losing it’s war with taking care of their people as they continue to grow faster than they can stay up with and are now expanding into other countries.
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China has no social safety net - no Social Security, no Medicare/Medicad. The CCP gives a rat’s patoot about the people - the only time they actually care is when they disappear unruly people.
China’s population is declining, and the economy is one real estate (40% of the economy) crash from total implosion.