The Great Game Changer: Belt and Road Intiative (BRI; OBOR)

[Jlaw]

At least he help VN to unify the nation... while 'great ' CN generals still cant help CN to unify small TW .

thank you for agreeing with me that Giap wasn't that great and sent thousands of Viet boys to their early grave.

 

[Bobby]

China is nobody's friend

 

[Echo_419]

 

[grand]

not china is unwilling to help. russia is also worrying about china controlling the russian economy.

 

[Tom99]

Some people/countries are just so jealous of the positive friendship and relationship between Russia and China that they would write and make up anything trying to drive a wedge between Russia and China.

It is a simple strategy: Divide and Conquer.

Fortunately, the leadership in Russia and China are pragmatic and smart enough to see through these thinly veiled manipulation.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Fake news with monkeys jumping up and down. Only TTP lovers want to leave Russia high and dry.

China cannot leave Russia "high and dry" because Russia is a key strategic partner of China for the New Silk Road, the Eurasian Landbridge and other major long-term Eurasian integration and development projects. China without Russia or vice versa at this stage of history cannot withstand US pressures alone. More importantly, Eurasia cannot be integrated without Russia or China. Bottom line; China and Russia are long-term strategic partners that will transform and integrate Eurasia as a whole which will end American hegemony in the not-so-distant future.

 

[TaiShang]

China’s Xinjiang-Russia trade rose 374% in 2014
February 14, 2015

Resource-rich Xinjiang remains a critical part of China’s economic strategy [Xinhua]

Trade between China’s restive far-western Xinjiang and Russia grew more than threefold last year amid a slowdown in the region’s foreign trade due to falling commodity prices, China’s official customs statistics body said on Saturday.


Resource-rich Xinjiang’s trade with Russia rose a whopping 374 per cent year on year in 2014 to $2.15 billion, compared with a 0.4-per cent rise in total Sino-Russian foreign trade to $27.67 billion during the same period.

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BRICS consider alternative SWIFT funds transfer system
By Kristoff Saunders on June 17, 2015

– Russian Deputy Foreign Minister says BRICS countries have led off consultations on an alternative to the global SWIFT system

BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are considering an alternative to the global SWIFT funds transfer system, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday.

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Russia has become China's # 1 crude oil supplier. No longer the Saudis.

And this will disallow the American oil cartel to manipulate and blackmail China in the global oil supply market.

Xi Jinping's OBOR (One Belt, One Road) vision is now being executed; BRICS, SCA, the planned Asian Economic Free Trade Zone, and AIIB, are all revving up their engines towards a reconfiguration of a new world order centered on Eurasia.

Like it or not, there will be laggards. There will be saboteurs. There will be those who oppose China's rise and re-emergence in the world stage as a global power.

The USers may not like it. But what can they do? They have lost the economic game.

Russia just one-upped the Saudis in China - Yahoo Finance

 

[Kyle Sun]

Does anyone know the meaning of " stand up to USA" ?

Shot americans in head is Standing up to usa ????

 

[JSCh]

Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as largest supplier of oil to China | Business | The Guardian
Moscow has had to seek alternative markets following sanctions over Ukraine crisis – but strengthening ties with Beijing has been going on for a while
Ami Sedghi
Wednesday 24 June 2015 15.17 BST Last modified on Wednesday 24 June 2015 16.03 BST

Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the largest supplier of oil to China for the first time, sending almost 930,000 barrels a day last month – up 21% on April.

China imported 3.92m tonnes of crude oil from Russia in May. In comparison, oil imports from Angola and Saudia Arabia totalled 3.26m tonnes and 3.05m tonnes respectively.

— Neil Hume (@humenm) June 23, 2015
Presenting some granular China oil import data, via Reuters. Saudi Arabia and Russia having a good year pic.twitter.com/yxGsVjAqCo​

Russian exports to China have more than doubled since 2010, according to analysis by the Financial Times.

As western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis started to bite, Moscow has had to seek alternative markets and friends. It has been, understandably, keen to strengthen ties with Beijing.

Russia steps up relations with China
The fact that Russia now accepts yuan for oil payments (Saudi Arabia doesn’t) undoubtedly also helped it top the oil supplier ranking.

The rouble-yuan currency pair reached record highs in trading volumes last summer as Russian companies and banks, traditionally dependent on dollar-denominated syndicated loans, looked to China.

In 2013, Russia’s largest oil producer, Rosneft,signed an $85bn deal with China’s Sinopec to deliver 100m tonnes of crude over 10 years.

On top of that, Rosneft struck a $270bn deal to double oil supplies to China. Last year, a 30-year deal was signed by the state-owned gas company Gazprom worth $400bn to deliver gas to China.

Last year, oil prices and the rouble both fell to five-year lows. The slump was bad news for Russia’s economy, which is strongly dependent on oil, and very sensitive to price changes. Analysts warned that plummeting crude prices could send the economy into a recession. Oil and gas make up around half of government income, and more than 60% of Russia’s exports.

Calculations at the time shows Russia needs an oil price of $105 a barrel for its budget to break-even; the country loses about $12bn-$14bn a year in revenue for every $10 decrease in the barrel price.

China is not the only way Russia has been attempting to diversify economically. Last year its central bank went on a massive gold buying spree, and earlier this year it reduced the dollar’s share in its international reserves below that of the euro for the first time since 2008.

 

[Hyperion]

Things are moving quietly and steadily in the right direction...... China needs to further lessen it's dependence on Saudi oil......... soon, Saudi will be kosher for a giant shakeup!

 

[Beidou2020]

China should stop buying oil from that repulsive terrorist sponsoring Saudi regime.

 

[TaiShang]

China News Service, Russia Today sign deal in St. Petersburg
2015-06-26

China News Service (CNS) President Zhang Xinxin (L, 1st)and Dmitry Kiselev(R, 1st), head of the Russia Today international news agency, sign a cooperation deal on the sidelines of the China-Russia Media Forum in St Petersburg on Thursday. (Photo/China News Service)

China News Service (CNS) President Zhang Xinxin (L, fornt) and Dmitry Kiselev (R, front), head of the Russia Today international news agency, sign a cooperation deal on the sidelines of the China-Russia Media Forum in St Petersburg on Thursday. (Photo/China News Service)


(ECNS) – China News Service (CNS) President Zhang Xinxin and Dmitry Kiselev, head of the Russia Today international news agency, signed a cooperation deal on the sidelines of the China-Russia Media Forum in St. Petersburg on Thursday.

According to the agreement, the two sides will cooperate in news exchange, joint interviews and co-organization of news events.

CNS is one of the two news agencies on the Chinese mainland. Through text, photography, features, websites, periodicals, newswires and video, CNS provides news to overseas Chinese people across the world, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Its user network covers most of the Chinese-language media in the world.

The state-run Russia Today news agency is the result of a merger and restructure of the former RIA Novosti news agency and The Voice of Russia, and is one of the largest media conglomerates in Russia. With the task of publicizing Russia's state policies and social life, it offers multilingual news services to the world.

Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Alexi Gromov, first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, witnessed signings of a series of cooperation deals which also include other Chinese and Russian media organizations.

China Radio International, the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, and the China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corps all signed deals with their Russian counterparts to share resources.

The recent meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, along with a joint announcement that 2016-2017 will be a media exchange year, has drawn wide attention.

Experts say the forum in St Petersburg signals that cooperation between Chinese and Russian media organizations will reach a new peak.

 

[Kyle Sun]

where is the number 47?

 

[Hindustani78]

Updated: June 30, 2015 13:06 IST
China firms up energy ties with Russia, starts work on Power of Siberia pipeline - The Hindu
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese Ambassador to Russia Li Hui attend a video conference, dedicated to the start of the construction of the Chinese section of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, in Moscow on Monday.

To pump 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia’s far-east to Shanghai
China has started construction of the 3,968-km-long gas pipeline to pump 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia’s far-east to Shanghai as it firmed up energy cooperation with Moscow, which is reeling under U.S. and EU sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli in a televised inauguration ceremony that was held simultaneously in Beijing, Moscow and the border city of Heihe in northeast China on Monday.

To be operational in 2018
Mr. Zhang said the Chinese side was ready to work with the Russian side to ensure that the pipeline was completed and put into operation in 2018.

The pipeline, extending from gas fields in Russia’s Far East to Shanghai, is designed to transport 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia to China every year.

Largest such project
In a speech at the ceremony, Mr. Zhang said the East Route gas pipeline is the largest China-Russia cooperative project conducive to diversifying energy strategy and guaranteeing the energy security of both countries.

In last September, construction started on the Russian section of the East Route pipeline, also known in Russia as the Power of Siberia pipeline.

‘Advance long-term cooperation’
Mr. Zhang said the two sides should advance long-term cooperation on oil, natural gas pipelines, gas development and integration of coal mining, power generation and transmission.

He said the two sides should expand all-round cooperation in investment, manufacturing capacity, finance, high-speed rail, agriculture and development of Far-East region as Beijing looked to advance its ties with Moscow.

Mr. Zhang said the two sides should also integrate China’s Silk Road Economic Belt initiative with development of the Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union in a bid to achieve more fruits in bilateral cooperation for the benefit of the two peoples, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

‘One of the largest energy projects’
Mr. Medvedev said through a teleconference that the Russia- China East Route natural gas pipeline was one of the world’s largest energy projects and a symbol of the high level of the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries. He said the gas pipeline would help propel economic and social development and lift people’s living standards in regions along its route in the two countries.

He said the Russian side was ready to further expand all-dimensional cooperation with China so as to promote the common development and prosperity of the two countries.

 

[TaiShang]

Russia and China pose largest security threats, says US military report | US news | The Guardian

• ‘Low but growing’ chance of war with major power, report says
• Iran and North Korea also pose ‘serious security concerns’

Wednesday 1 July 2015

America’s new military strategy singles out states like China and Russia as aggressive and threatening to US security interests, while warning of growing technological challenges and worsening global stability.

A somber report released Wednesday by General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warns of a “low but growing” probability of the US fighting a war with a major power, with “immense” consequences.

Russia has “repeatedly demonstrated that it does not respect the sovereignty of its neighbors and it is willing to use force to achieve its goals”, the 2015 National Military Strategy says.

“Russia’s military actions are undermining regional security directly and through proxy forces.”

It points to Russian troop presence in the Ukraine conflict, though Moscow denies it has deployed its military in eastern Ukraine to bolster a separatist insurgency.

And the report expresses concern about states developing advanced technological capabilities that are causing the US military to lose its edge in that field.

“When applied to military systems, this diffusion of technology is challenging competitive advantages long held by the United States such as early warning and precision strike,” the paper says.

In addition to China and Russia, the paper also includes Iran and North Korea – highlighting their nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities – in a list of countries that pose “serious security concerns” to America and its allies.

“Since the last national military strategy was published four years ago, global disorder has trended upward while some of our comparative advantages have begun to erode,” Dempsey told reporters.

The 2011 report spoke little of Russia.

“China’s actions are adding tension to the Asia-Pacific region,” the document states, in reference to China’s land reclamation efforts to build islands in the contested South China sea to boost its military and civilian presence.

America’s enormous military has an annual budget of about $600bn, dwarfing that of any other nation.

And faced with non-state adversaries like the self-proclaimed Islamic State group that has seized significant portions of Iraq and Syria, Dempsey warned of long and complex fights ahead.

“Future conflicts will come more rapidly, last longer, and take place on a much more technically challenging battlefield,” he wrote in the foreword to the report.

Violent extremist groups “pose an immediate threat to transregional security by coupling readily available technologies with extremist ideologies”, the report states.

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Russia and China pose largest security threats, says US military report | US news | The Guardian