Posted on 03/19/2023 4:04:30 AM PDT by FarCenter
Moscow (AFP) – Every Sunday, Chinese tutor Kirill Burobin begins work in the early morning and is kept busy until midnight.
As Russia seeks to tighten ties with China amid Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine, the number of Burobin's students has tripled over the past year.
"Sunday is the busiest," 20-year-old Burobin, who makes a good living with his online lessons, told AFP.
"I have 16 hours of classes virtually without a break."
The boom in demand for Chinese lessons in Russia illustrates the country's pivot towards Asia as tensions build between Moscow and the West.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's three-day visit to Russia beginning Monday aims to deepen what the two countries have called a "no-limits" relationship, which is increasingly important for Russia as its international isolation deepens.
Pummelled by multiple rounds of Western sanctions, Russia's economic and technological development is becoming more dependent on China.
Natalia Danina, a manager at HeadHunter, the country's top online recruitment company, said that last year there were nearly 11,000 vacancies requiring knowledge of the Chinese language, a 44 percent increase compared to 2021.
Over the same period, the number of jobs for Chinese speakers in Russia has doubled in sales, transport and logistics, said Danina, pointing to an "accelerated transition" to Chinese-made equipment and spare parts.
Demand for Chinese speakers in energy jobs has tripled, she added.
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Yep, Russia and China will now cement the alliance that the NEOCONS created. First it will be a tight economic alliance, assuring Russia that they don’t have to worry about Western sanctions anymore, and then it will likely progress to a MILITARY ALLIANCE, meaning that Russia can play ball with NATO “for as long as it takes” (a little Neocon Lingo, for those of you in Rio Linda).
Absolute IDIOCY by the Neocons, and that’s even by their own standards.
Only a moron would not understand why totalitarian regimes run by presidents-for-life would naturally have more in common among themselves than with the West.
“Only a moron would not understand...”
Sucks to get your asses kicked in Ukraine, no?
Loving the Russian military being turned into scrap.
“Loving the Russian military being turned into scrap.”
We all have our fantasies, so I’ll stay out of yours (but Russia won’t).
“Loving the Russian military being turned into scrap.”
Putin is the biggest military dunce the world has ever seen.
His propaganda goons and useful LiberalTarian idiots spout on...but the reality is that Bahkmut was an obvious and easy win for Putin. LOL, but now it is not.
But, the war will end soon as Ukraine can’t bear any more. And it goes on an on an on. Russia’s unique endless war.
We all have our fantasies
Right, Russian invasion of Ukraine, 13 months later is not a quagmire. Talk about fantasies.
The west certainly missed a grand opportunity to cement relations with Russia. I would say they view us as enemies now. It may even be our undoing because China will now have access to their mineral wealth.
This war is just the icing on the cake so to say. I’ve watched the Dems and neocons get more and more hostile with them well before now.
A quick search shows the positive surge of relations caused by the fall of communism started around early 2000s until 2011 was mentioned when they took a steep dive under Obama and only have gotten worse (except a brief resurgence of good will under Trump).
“Right, Russian invasion of Ukraine, 13 months later is not a quagmire. Talk about fantasies.”
It’s another 2 years, AT LEAST, before your Neocon buddies can significantly ramp up hardware production (dingbats never thought they’d need it, even when prodding Russia for this war)...and meanwhile thanks the Taiwan policy of your Neocon buddies - China may well be ready to put their HUGE industrial base (by far the largest in the world) to work for Russia’s military.
So don’t come crying to us for their IDIOCY, we (Trump supporters) wanted no part of this WW3 crap.
It’s worse than a quagmire. They have no way to win and now way to get out.
Putin is an idiot. When they decide to leave in about 5 years, they will be punished on the way out.
It may go beyond 5 years. It’s an endless war.
“except a brief resurgence of good will under Trump”
Yep, Trump is still trying to figure out why IT IS SO DAMN IMPORTANT for the Neocons to be enemies with Russia, when they would have been a PERFECT ally in the upcoming battle with the real enemy, which of course is China.
The best that I can come up with is a sick hormone-driven obsession for making Russia pay for the Humidor, which was nearly 100 years ago and done by different country, that was not even ruled by a Russian. The two women who started the Ukraine War continue to push it, Nuland and Milly, are Ukrainians first, Americans second (along with several of their supporters here).
Your showing ignorance, the ONLY lack is artillery shells. If Russia starts dominating, US can send ATACMS, hundreds of M113, or Bradleys(2,000 in storage), etc. Putin's Russia is stuck in a quagmire.
Right, totalitarian countries bent on territorial expansion like Russia would be a "PERFECT ally" of the US. Unbelievable
Do you realize that 10 years ago only 10-15% of Russian trade was with China? There was little to none Chinese stuff in Russia, and Europe was number one trading partner. It was this way since the 16th century, until the year 2018.
Do you seriously hint that Putin is worse a tyrant than Ivan the Terrible?
Or maybe the Western trade restrictions mean that the trade would be redirected elsewhere, and no nobody is going to look back?
I’m done with you as there are now ADULTS on this thread.
“Right, totalitarian countries bent on territorial expansion like Russia would be a “PERFECT ally” of the US. Unbelievable”
Getting hard to hide your NeverTrumper credentials, isn’t it?
Sad, that all you have left in response is name calling.
“Sad, that all you have left in response is name calling.”
You outed yourself, sorry, no different than calling a guy gay who sleeps with another guy.
LOL, wait I thought you were done, "adults" were in the room. Adults who cannot seem to answer why we would want to align ourselves with Russia, a totalitarian regime that is bent on invasions for territorial expansion.
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