Posted on 05/04/2025 6:41:10 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia said on Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in the country’s capital Moscow on an official visit, as it is set to host ceremonial events marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in World War II next week.
A statement by the Kremlin said that Xi will pay an official visit to Moscow between May 7-10, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, where he will take part in Victory Day events in the country’s capital.
(Excerpt) Read more at aa.com.tr ...
Little known fact: In Mandarin, Xi Jinping means “human shield”.
Putin says he hopes use of nuclear arms in Ukraine will not be needed Anadolu Ajansı, 04.05.2025
He did not, stupid. Already posted. And it was in the JPost.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4314963/posts
I’ll be there also.
With your Momz.🇷🇺😄
“The things you see when you don’t have a bomb.”
Thank you for the delightful courtesy of your bilge.
Not all watch FR 24/7 and catch every possible post and comment. That we all -- including you -- are not present on this forum all the time is not a sign of stupidity.
But the tone of your comment is indeed a sign of stupidity.
It was posted literally 6 threads below this one - completely visible to all.
“Stupid” still stands, despite your blustering pedantry.
The wording appears different between the articles (for example, the beginning of the second paragraph). And as we all know quite well, some individuals are happy to post multiple articles from different sources on essentially the same topic...
Aha. That old lame response tactic. Have you consider that many of us donate to FR anonymously?
No?
Then “stupid” remains, despite your sad attempts to deflect.
Didn't ask about anyone other than you. Have you donated recently?
Why, as a matter of fact, I have. Now what, genius?
Then good for both of us. As to your snide tone, it remains unnecessary.
Agreed.
chickie maximus has got his panties in a wad because you interrupted his consumption of Ukraine War porn.
He’s also known as “a pair of panties maximus”, because they’re constantly wadded up.
Ethane.
It is the feedstock of plastic. China is a huge consumer and the US is big supplier. Chinese consumption of Ethane is about 7 million metric tons/year.
Ethane only recently got newsy as it hit the tariff radar screen.
Russia, the #1 nat gas reserves country of the world, is producing 300K barrels/day of Ethane.
This is where it gets tricky. The conversion factor of metric tons to barrels for oil is 7.2. It takes 7.2 barrels to equal 1 metric ton. Barrels is a US standard. Tons a Russian standard (for good reason, all oil is not the same density (weight)).
But the Ethane conversion factor is 4.2 pounds per gallon and there are 42 gallons in a barrel. blah blah, so the Russian 300K bpd is 3 million BLAH BLAH . . . 26,000 tons per day of Ethane produced by Russia and X 365 = 9.6 million tons of Ethane per year.
Russia already has customers. Domestic plastics firms. But in a general way it is clear that China can be serviced if they shut off US Ethane. Russia produces more Ethane than China consumes. They are growing that production btw at 10%/yr.
The point of all that is there will be plenty for Putin and Xi to discuss beyond WW II victory.
Maybe marcus and chickie are romantically involved?
chickie is just White Knighting for marcus? Why cain’t he quit marcus?
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