[Navy Patriot]

Eastern trade pacts forming as well as Western.

[Melinator]

Elect Trump.

[JimSEA]

Two basket case economies joining their weaknesses. Oh goody.

[Gay State Conservative]

Two nations populated by savages...and that,for centuries,have been *ruled* by savages.

[SeeSharp]

the post-Soviet economic bloc that includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.

Still no Uzbekistan? I wonder what Karimov is hoping for. It's not like he's going to patch things up with the west any time soon.

[Flag_This]

Did they sign a non-aggression pact?

[StoneWall Brigade]

This is interesting

[Zhang Fei]

Real head scratcher. Russia extracts raw materials, and China turns them into finished goods. They need a pact to reiterate this fact? Sounds more like a photo op than any kind of breakthrough.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Lotta potential raw materials and workforce there. Meanwhile the World Bank and the IMF continue their loan sharking via debt finance with “conditionalities”. Google it.

[odawg]

The Russian economy is the size of California’s.

[Orc]

There is either Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok or Asia from Shanghai to St.Petersburg if the West do not accept the first approach. Third variant is another Iron Curtain but it is not a viable option in 21 century.