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Russia-Ukraine War Accelerates Collapse of China’s Belt and Road Global Strategy
The Epoch Times ^ | April 23, 2022 | Jennifer Bateman

Posted on 04/23/2022 9:38:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Over the past ten years, China’s Communist Party (CCP) has strategically relied on its $4 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to boost its image and influence with at least 149 countries to date. But success has eluded its efforts, and the BRI strategy may be doomed as a result.

Consider for example the CCP’s stalled attempts at pushing the BRI strategy across countries in Europe. Not anticipated were the barriers and delays created by sanctions imposed on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine.

Before the sanctions, China used Russia as a convenient transit point for the shipment of BRI equipment and supplies into Europe. China routed its cargo into St. Petersburg Russia via the China-Europe Railway then shipped it across the Baltic Sea into central Europe. The sanctions forced China to detour its cargo around Russia and enter Europe via slower land routes across Belarus, Poland, and other countries.

China’s BRI strategy was first introduced in 2013 by CCP head Xi Jinping. The strategy is in two parts: on land via the Silk Road Economic Belt which runs through Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe to Western Europe; and on water via the “Maritime Silk Road,” which runs through the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, westward through Southeast Asia to South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

War-torn Ukraine, at the junction of the Eurasian continent, is an important gateway into Europe from Asia and an important source of energy, food, and military technology for China.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


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1 posted on 04/23/2022 9:38:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, ... good.


2 posted on 04/23/2022 9:41:43 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: D Rider

Yeah, that’s the silver lining, I guess.


3 posted on 04/23/2022 9:51:51 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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4 posted on 04/23/2022 10:01:24 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Unintended consequences.

5 posted on 04/23/2022 10:03:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m not convinced this is hurting China as much as the article states-China itself, via Covid restrictions, is ‘involved’ in slowing down and interrupting trade and trade routes. They have their own “Reset” agenda.


6 posted on 04/23/2022 10:12:14 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think the opposite

This conflict will accelerate plans for China, Russia. india, Pakistan, the Gulf region…to build a new trade and economic order from the Heartland, independent from US and old ( Western European) dominated financial controls that the developing world sees being weaponized against Russia as a US political instrument


7 posted on 04/23/2022 10:16:00 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The worry is that that main beneficiary of a weakened Russia is China. The Chinese are rapidly supplanting Russian power and influence across Central Asia.


8 posted on 04/23/2022 10:21:12 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: silverleaf

I agree. I think this article is disinformation for the western world consumption.

Everything I am reading and hearing about comes to a much different conclusion.


9 posted on 04/23/2022 10:32:31 AM PDT by EBH (Hold My Beer. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: Renfrew

That is going to happen regardless. Russia, is in inevitable decline with a paltry economy. China is only going to get larger economically.

Putin is the best western implement as his policies are stagnating Russian Entreprenurial assets and economy.


10 posted on 04/23/2022 10:37:31 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: rbmillerjr

China has a real estate issue, a BS economic report issue, and is beginning to have a demographic issue.
Russia is clearly worse off, but China isn’t without issue.


11 posted on 04/23/2022 11:09:47 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
.... this is a map of the 'commercial ships, tankers currently waiting offshore'

to be loaded and offloaded of goods; exacerbating global supply chain woes....


12 posted on 04/23/2022 11:14:34 AM PDT by caww ( )
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When you add in all the "other" boats and ships besides tankers and shipping loads

then it looks like this...


13 posted on 04/23/2022 11:17:17 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: caww

Epoch Times is a Falun Gong publication, so any “anti-China” pieces should be taken with a good bit of skepticism. They used to be a pretty good source for China stories unreported in the west, and occasionally still are. Over the past few years they have jumped on the conspiracy nut bandwagon and their reporting is getting less and less reliable.


14 posted on 04/23/2022 11:27:51 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCM

Yes I understood that, and though as you stated their reporting was very good in the beginning and I brought their articles here along with others, but I stopped doing so when they went off half cocked.


15 posted on 04/23/2022 11:33:04 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Practically every single thread about Russia and/or Ukraine becomes a war of keywords, like clockwork.

It gets kind of boring.


16 posted on 04/23/2022 11:33:39 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: silverleaf

—”This conflict will accelerate plans for China”

Even if Putin manages a Pyrrhic victory, Mother Russia will be set back a hundred years economically.

Before this debacle, Russia’s GDP, mostly energy exports, was less than Italy’s.

Russia will become a subsidiary of China for a long time.


17 posted on 04/23/2022 11:42:33 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: caww

I think China has used their extensive surveillance and tracking to plug many of the leaks ET was exploiting and has arrested or punished most of their sources inside China. Now they are desperate for content and the quality has dropped significantly.


18 posted on 04/23/2022 12:17:54 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gosh. What a shame.


19 posted on 04/23/2022 12:36:42 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: ETCM

Actually that’s happening in a lot of nations as they’re all trying to recalibrate their systems sufficient enough to survive the shifts happening now.


20 posted on 04/23/2022 12:38:27 PM PDT by caww ( )
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