Hot on the heels of Donald Trump's visit, Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping. DW explores how China's trade and financial support is helping keep Russia's economy afloat.
  • hello_hello [undecided, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    a move [Taiwan] that could draw Western sanctions on Beijing or even a US naval blockade that disrupts China’s sea-borne oil imports.

    Because the last blockade worked so well on a country that didnt even have a peer navy that didnt get sucker sunked at the very start of the war.

    DW is a German state publication, so their aim is to widen the wedge between russo-sino relations and hope that Power of Siberia 2 is delayed as much as possible. Predictably, euro-american imperialists want Russia to stay in the West and simply accept its second class position perpetually. Driving sinophobia is the key aim of the new cold war to delegitmize any cooperation outside of western control.

    Hopefully POS II is realized and Russia will have pivoted its energy exports away from the transient warzone that NATO had created.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      At this point, I really can’t see Russia going back to trading with the west in any significant amounts for the foreseeable future. A lot of the economy has been redirected towards China and other BRICS countries now, and that means there are now strong business interests vested in trading outside the west. On top of that, western economies are contracting, so the appeal of being part of western economic system is dissipating along with the strength of the economy. My expectation is Russia will only continue becoming more firmly embedded in Asia and more broadly in BRICS now. On top of that all, US blockades and disruptions of global shipping are, in turn, forcing Asia to look to Russia because land routes lie outside western control.