Posted on 02/26/2022 5:49:40 PM PST by WMarshal
BEIJING — As Russia wreaks havoc in Ukraine, Moscow has a powerful economic ally to help it resist Western sanctions: China.
Chinese purchases of oil from Russia in December surpassed its purchases from Saudi Arabia. Six days before the military campaign began, Russia announced a yearslong deal to sell 100 million tons of coal to China — a contract worth more than $20 billion. And hours before Russia began bombing Ukraine, China agreed to buy Russian wheat despite concerns about plant diseases.
In a throwback to the 1950s, when Mao Zedong worked closely with Joseph Stalin and then Nikita Khrushchev, China is again drawing close to Russia. As the United States and the European Union have become wary of China, Beijing’s leaders have decided that their best geopolitical prospects lie in marrying their vast industrial might with Russia’s formidable natural resources.
Recent food and energy deals are just the latest signals of China’s economic alignment with Russia.
“What happened up to now is only a beginning for both the Russian expansionism by force and the Chinese economic and financial support to Russia,” Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, said in a text message. “This does not mean that China directly supports in any degree that expansionism — this only means that Beijing strongly feels the necessity to maintain and boost strategic partnership with Moscow.”
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No matter how many banking sanctions they put on Russia they will have no effect without sanctioning China. With the current crop of mendacities leading the West that will never happen. Our despotic leadership is in the ChiCom's pocket and will do nothing but bleat like sheep as they sell out America and Europe.
Russia will end up a vassal state to China if Putin gets his way
Not really buying all the rosy reports about China/Russia
these days.
If things were all that cozy, it seems Russia and China
would have gone for their goals on the same day.
China is the much stronger partner in the Russia-China alliance. It is a marriage of two psychopaths.
I can’t help thinking that “full Tonto” might have another meaning…
It is hard to see through the fog of propaganda but there is no contention that Russia took control of Kazakisthan last month and that move secured two rail lines into China.
China and Russia are natural allies against the West until China or Russia inevitably betray one another.
Be a real dose of karma if Chinese grain fields ended up with a major outbreak of fusarium head blight.
I believe that “full tonto” means totally crazy.
It does, but it also means that Putin isn’t the one on the big shiny horse with the big shiny guns who runs the show.
Russia and China are national partners in that Russia supplies the raw materials in China is the manufacturing hub.
Are idiotic government is pushing Russian the China’s arms and that will not work out well for anyone.
China is going to end up owning Russia, which is bad news for Russia as well as the West. I’m hoping the Russians dump Putin and hammer out a treaty with us!
That would be nice because Russia would be a great country if it was ruled well and its citizens had the opportunity to prosper.
When to comes to Russia or anything involving China and the Biden Regime, I don't hold out a lot I hope
Putin may have thought he may have cemented ties with China. Xi probably has a different opinion.
President Retard and the Regressives are throwing us back into another Cold War and proxy battles 🤪
Thanks a lot
I'm not so sure about that. There is a reason why the Russians ended up ruling most of Eurasia in spite of a meager population. The Russians are natural mobsters and they can give the mercantilist communist Chinese a run for their money. It is a mad dog vs. mad dog scenario.
That is how the Military Industrial Complex rolls and keeps the blood money flowing in.
President Eisenhower was a biblical prophet.
It has been reported that Russia has about $650 BILLION in reserves of which $250 BILLION is in gold bullion. They are self-sufficient in energy and Putin has sanctioned proof Russia in anticipation of such moves as are now being attempted. He has been playing Biden - the US - like a violin. NATO countries who have become dependent on Russian energy are compromised and will suffer if / when Russia cuts their energy. In addition, “Walter” has been buying Russian oil too since enacting political decisions which kept the US energy independent. The progressive western European nations cannot rely on their “green energy “ and have foolishly spent billions on the “Global Warming” scam. They have become undependable allies against Russia.
I do agree with that, each for their own gain, as is normal.
Look who we sided with in the past.
I do not trust China not to screw everyone they can, even at
times like this, and even with an ally.
While I agree with you, the Chinese leadership runs the biggest
con game every devised.
https://theasiatoday.org/editorials/russia-china-partnership-agreement/
On February 4, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have signed a joint statement in Beijing before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony held in China. This statement was accepted as a bold declaration of the “New World Order” and the partnership between the two states without any limitations. The statement can be divided into four parts: the manifest on the new world order, Grand Eurasian Partnership, the United States (US) aggression, and cooperation against US aggression. It
No mention of China’s One World Oder hugh...
Thanks for the mention of that.
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