Posted on 11/03/2019 7:41:37 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the recent Valdai forum contained two fundamental points regarding China. His official confirmation that Russia is helping China to create a missile launch detection system got more attention, but of no little importance was Putin’s assessment of the state of Russian-Chinese relations: “This is an allied relationship in the full sense of a multifaceted strategic partnership.”
Another sign of the new caliber of cooperation is Russia and China’s readiness to jointly use their armed forces to take demonstrative action in various parts of the world. In 2017, Chinese navy ships carried out joint exercises with their Russian counterparts in the Baltic, sparking ire among a range of NATO countries. In July 2019, the first joint patrol by Russian and Chinese long-range bomber aircraft took place over the Pacific Ocean: an explicit demonstration of the possibilities of joint action in the event of a conflict with the United States.
Now there is talk of possible trilateral maneuvers with Iran in the western part of the Indian Ocean, which, despite their stated focus on anti-terror measures, demonstrates preparation for the joint strengthening of their positions in remote parts of the world.
This new caliber of Sino-Russian military relations will likely be enshrined in the Sino-Russian agreement on military cooperation, which will replace a rather vague document signed in 1993 and is likely to be signed in the near future.
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I’ve been saying for the longest we needed to team up with Russia before China does....
Russia? Yeah riiiight
It’s Siberia. A billion Chinese with no place to go. Russia should be worried.
Yeah, right. There’s only three players. Now, its the US vs Russia and China.
Both are eternal enemies...
As for a year ago Russian sanctions cost Russia about $50 billion. It cost US companies about $15 billion, Japan $28 billion, Germany $290 billion and a million jobs.
Who do you think got the business? It doesn’t make sense for Russia to shun China at this point and China extracts maximum out of this situation.
China is just doing it so they can steal Russia’s stuff again ,LOL
You omit India, which will surpass China in population around mid-century and has a rapidly improving economy and standards of living. India has its own reasons, both historic and strategic, to be concerned about a Russian and Chinese military alliance along its northern borders. It also has reason to be concerned about militant Islamic state and nonstate actors to its west.
It cannot escape its geographic realities and, therefore, is compelled to chart an independent path. A real military alliance with the west, and specifically the United States, is probably a political bridge too far. But it can be encouraged and strengthened to frustrate the military aspects of China’s “belt and road” initiative and strengthened as a naval power so that the Russians and Chinese understand their fleet units are always going to be tolerated visitors in the Indian and Southern Oceans, not permanent residents.
Their neighbors
However Russia is heading away from communism and towards Christ while the communist Chinese desperately try to prevent the hundreds of millions of Christians in their country from expressing their faith at all and try to destroy their churches
Both countries are zealously anti-Islam and have major Muslim issues
Whereas the Russians allow them to exist and tolerate them the Chinese are imprisoning them and tried to put them in communist reeducation camps
In the end the Chinese communists are only about themselves and really don’t care who they ally with or not
Russia is in a serious state of decline where a good majority of the male population they are alcoholics and are dying by the age of 50
China has 1.2 billion people of which about 700 million would be considered poor and they’re having major food problems as the pig population is devastated by the swine flu and they have worms devastating there’s cereal crops expect major food riots to happen in China in the next couple of years
I don't know about teaming up, but certainly the last eight years have seen the United States and its western allies practically push Russia into the waiting arms of Communist China.
Its a very short sighted and flawed foreign policy that assigns a higher value to a failed state like Ukraine than it does a strategic nuclear partner like Russia.
Just like Russia and Germany took their partnership to a new level in 1939.
The Russians will soon discover that the Chinese on their door step are much more of a threat than the United States ever was.
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