Posted on 05/08/2025 9:35:00 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Putin and Xi say they 'intend' to play a role in US-Iran nuclear negotiations.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for formal talks on Thursday for the first time since President Donald Trump exacerbated the U.S.-China trade war last month.
In a statement at the top of the meeting, Xi pledged to stand by his anti-Western ally against "power politics" and "bullying on the international stage."
"Eighty years ago, the peoples of China and Russia made tremendous sacrifices to secure a great victory, contributing an indelible chapter to the cause of world peace and human progress," Xi said, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.
"Today, in the face of unilateralist backflows and acts of power politics and bullying on the international stage, China will join Russia in shouldering our special responsibilities as major countries and permanent members of the U.N. Security Council," he added.
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“Well, the US did steal Russia’s sovereign wealth funds”
Putin: “Of course, they did not take the last step - they froze [the reserves], they did not steal this money from us completely,”
China’s Navy has 2 carriers to the US 11. The gap is less profound than that because China makes no attempt to project military power outside Asia.
The ratio of Destroyer class ships is US 90, China 50, with the US building 6 this year and decommissioning 19. China is building 15 with no decommissioning plans.
China’s Corvette array is 72 vs US 22. China’s Frigate array is 43 with the US fast tracking construction of Constellation class Frigate Ships — having 0 Frigates presently.
Submarine count, US 68, China 78.
We can wave our hands about who is superior to who electronically and who stole what tech to erase any seniority. Overall, those are the numbers above and China’s ship building capability far, far exceeds that of the US, so any numerical advantage will grow
Let us wait and see if Xi makes it back to China.
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