Posted on 02/11/2023 6:43:57 PM PST by elpadre
Chinese investment and interest in Russia’s Arctic natural resources continues unabated. In addition to receiving regular shipments of LNG and crude oil, one of China’s major engineering and construction companies is partnering with Russian Titanium Resources to develop a massive mineral deposit in the Russian Arctic.
Russian Titanium Resources (Rustitan) and China Communications and Construction Company signed an agreement for the development of the Pizhemskoye mining project in the Komi Republic.
The cooperation extends beyond the mining of titanium and includes a host of related infrastructure development including expansion of the Arctic deep water port of Indiga and construction of the Sosnogorsk-Indiga railway connection. The region’s mining cluster extends beyond titanium into other minerals, including zircon, iron ore, and gold.
A key aspect of the project is the transport component allowing for the export of materials through Urals and Siberia and funneling cargo onto the Northern Sea Route (NSR).
Rustitan was founded in 2007 focusing primarily on the mining of titanium and quartz raw materials. The company discovered the Pizhemskoye deposit, located in the Ust-Tsilemsky district of the Komi Republic, in 2021. The field is home to Russia’s and the world’s largest titanium ore reserves. Pizhemskoye contains more than 80 percent of the country’s titanium ore reserves.
China Communications and Construction Company has been involved in a number of the country’s Belt and Road Initiative projects, though it has repeatedly faced scrutiny for its financial practices and has been subject to U.S. sanctions for more than a decade.
More cargo for the NSR
The Pizhemskoye project is a key component of the Kremlin’s official 2020 Arctic investment plan, also called “Strategy of Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation for the period to 2035.”
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“..China is the world’s largest producer and exporter of titanium and as a result is also one of the leading importers of titanium ore required to produce the alloy.
Lightweight titanium alloys are used extensively in the aerospace and defense industry during the production of jet engines, missiles and spacecraft.
Prior to western sanctions Russia’s largest producer VSMPO-Avisma supplied around 30 percent of titanium needs for the global aerospace industry, with US’ Boeing receiving 40 percent of its titanium from Russia and its European rival Airbus procuring up to 60 percent from Russia. ..”
And we have zero titanium reserves. Great.
wouldn’t it be nice, if instead of being at war with Russia, we could have been partners and friends - and not have forced them into an alliance with China.
And the Putin-Xi Greenies will prevent any attempt to develop any reserves here in the US...
All the obvious warnings about not putting Russia & China into an alliance against us were ignored. Thanks to the NeoCons (who have followers here). It so unnecessary.
The US is certain to pay a heavy price for this in the decades to come.
When the USSR was dissolved in 1991, when Reagan and Gorbachev had established a working relationship would have been the time for developing a friendly, a peaceful relationship. Reading some of the write-ups on meeting between the US and NATO leaders with Russia I believe some were hoping for that. But, instead it has been adversarial.
Russia has more natural resources than any other country. May be because Russia spans 12 time zones. It is a very large country.
Neocons harm USA in the long term more than any other group.
Add up the treasure spent in Vietnam+Afgnistan+Iraq+Ukraine. No wonder the national debt is close to $32 trillion. Then consider how many Americans killed or maimed in unnecessary foreign wars.
The Suicide Sanctions pushed Russia, with its land / resources / people, into the dark embrace of China.
Can’t we get China and Russia to fight each other? Like the Trotskyites and Stalinists did?
Highlights of the fun bunch:
Trotsky’s house was riddled with 200 rounds but he and his wife survived and the backup plan was a paid assassin who had a gun, a knife and a pointed ice pick. Trotsky ended up with the ice pick buried two inches into the back of his skull.
End of a brief article:
China restructured its government and eliminated much of its culture during two movements known as the
Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
During the Great Leap Forward, a plan patterned after
Stalin’s 5 Year Plan, which attempted to shift the Soviet Union from a purely agrarian society to an
industrial one that also caused millions to starve in a countrywide famine, took place from 1958 to 1961,
the government took land from peasants, who were then organized into farming cooperatives, a policy
that ultimately lead to 15 to 20 million people dying in a famine. The Cultural Revolution was a state sponsored eradication of traditional Chinese culture, ideas, customs and habits that took place from 1966
to 1976 and resulted in the destruction of temples and schools as well as the murder of over 3 million
people who were deemed a threat to the revolution.
Punch One and Punch Two go together.
Russia making us look stupid....
We don’t need any help looking stupid, our government does that on their own.
The US is certain to pay a heavy price for this in the decades to come.
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We already are. Our aircraft, aerospace, turbine engine and defense manufacturers are in a tizzy over where / who to source the exotic metals that were lost with vegetable heads sanctions….and Vlads reverse sanctions.
….and Vlad says Checkmate, again.
We have lots of titanium, they don’t have an EPA we do.
Their land to use as they see fit.
We have a Democrat party that only allows us
to use our resources as they see fit to do so.
Yup. Lots of titanium ore up on the Iron Range in MN. But Fed and state rats won’t let them mine it.
Russia Chicom vassal state.
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