FT: Moscow already pays high price for friendship with Beijing

25 2020 June 13

Russia cannot afford many years of confrontation with the West, writes the British business newspaper Financial Times.

According to the publication, Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to stop "shaking his fists" towards the West, and it is necessary to "brush off the web of the Cold War" and admit that the threat to Russian power comes from China. Moscow should stop considering NATO as an enemy and take a close look at the assertiveness of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The newspaper notes that until this time the external policy The Russian leader was more tactical than strategic. Putin most of all wants Washington to recognize an equal adversary in Moscow and begin to respect it, as it was before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He was allegedly “hurt” by a statement by former US President Barack Obama that the role of Russia in the world was reduced to a “regional power”.

In this case, economic and strategic realities did not develop as Moscow would have liked. Therefore, Putin sacrificed strategic interests and agreed to the role of "junior partner" of China. And now the Kremlin is waiting for the re-election of Donald Trump to the United States, so that the owner of the White House will destroy NATO from within.

FT believes that on the one hand, the existing Moscow-Beijing axis is perfectly justified. Both countries reject Washington’s post-war world order and do not share Western values. At the same time, China received from Russia a reliable rear and uninterrupted supply of resources. So he can challenge US hegemony.

But for Russia, the benefits of such an unequal partnership are not so obvious. Putin, of course, got a comrade in arms against Western liberalism, but the Chinese Belt and Road initiative reduces Russian influence in Central Asia, and Beijing’s attempts to take advantage of the Northern Sea Route harm Russia's interests in the Arctic. This is the price. So Putin should spend time on a “strategic inventory”.

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Don36

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25 June 2020 19: 07

Friendship with the Anglo-Saxons of Russia cost as much as World War II, so England would be quieter and start repenting for sins!
Ky Ky

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25 June 2020 19: 17

Or maybe we’ll start raking things up at home ?? What China is for us, what is the USA for us, and others ... We have ourselves - it is time to establish our life and conditions. Stop living in the past and dreaming about the future. Life is right here. If you have a great present - there is every chance that the future will be great. )
beeper

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25 June 2020 19: 26

The mistake of all foreign "forecasters" is that they do not think in Russian!
And yet, about the FT's "masterpiece" send;

Moscow must stop considering NATO as an enemy

Moscow NEEDS NOTHING!
123

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25 June 2020 20: 18

FT believes that on the one hand, the existing Moscow-Beijing axis is perfectly justified. Both countries reject Washington’s post-war world order and do not share Western values. At the same time, China received from Russia a reliable rear and uninterrupted supply of resources. So he can challenge US hegemony.

Don't share Western values? They simply have no other choice. We need to think about our own economy, and preferably separately from the "exceptional" ones. They give you 70 rubles for a dollar, and it's time to give it in the face. Sharpie overseas candy wrappers in cubic meters print, like Popandopala in Malinovka.
The problem with the public debt, nobody buys? It doesn't matter, there is the Fed. Has the mortgage bubble been inflated again? No problem. There is the Fed. Has the economy stopped? It doesn't matter, we'll print as much as necessary.
From March 15 to May 21, we bought up 2 trillion treasury and mortgage "securities" and continue to buy.
In April-May, 2,9 trillion were printed under coronavirus.
In two months, just 5 trillion were added to the computer. Here is such a casino.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/clarida20200521a.htm
1. Observer2014
  
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  25 June 2020 20: 22
  
  We need to think about our own economy, and preferably separately from the "exceptional" ones. For a dollar, they give 70 rubles, and it's time to kick it in the face.
  
  This is how you will probably give in the face? There is already a direct desire to hear your personal opinion about pension reform in Russia.
  1. 123
    
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    25 June 2020 20: 23
    
    Why are you worried? If every day under a safe, a pension is not needed.
    1. Observer2014
      
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      25 June 2020 20: 25
      
      Quote: 123
      Why are you worried? If every day under a safe, a pension is not needed.
      
      And you for mine, your shafe? Willing to hear your personal opinion about pension reform in Russia.
      1. 123
        
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        25 June 2020 20: 26
        
        And the same as you for my pension.
        
        Observer2014
        
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        25 June 2020 20: 28
        
        Quote: 123
        And the same as you for my pension.
        
        Well, thank God that is yours. For ours. For the general. In Russia, all the troubles are common. In addition to money.
  2. Observer2014
    
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    25 June 2020 20: 45
    
    Quote: Observer2014
    We need to think about our own economy, and preferably separately from the "exceptional" ones. For a dollar, they give 70 rubles, and it's time to kick it in the face.
    
    This is how you will probably give in the face? There is already a direct desire to hear your personal opinion about the pension reform in Russia.
    
    Put the fourth letter "C".
    
    about pension reform in Russia.
gorenina91

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26 June 2020 07: 05

FT: Moscow already pays high price for friendship with Beijing

- Yes, Russia "is already paying a high price for its friendship with Beijing"; has already paid (boosted) colossal space funds into this "friendship" ..; but the most terrible price ... the price of Russia will soon have to be paid ... - And this will be the most real national catastrophe for Russia ...
- Well, for now ... - Russia quietly sits on a chain in China, fulfills all its whims and waits for the command "Fas !!!" ... - And for Russia ... in fact, there is no difference ...- with whom to fight and who to resist ... - The main thing for Russia is to be close to China, to help it with all the forces and to lay the bones for the sake of its Chinese well-being ...
1. Ivan Semenov
  
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  26 June 2020 13: 12
  
  Irishka, is there anything else in your head besides bile?
  1. gorenina91
    
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    26 June 2020 13: 32
    
    - Ivashka, about bile and everything about you is clear ... - You just have no idea ... - where is the gall bladder ... - but it is somehow excusable ...
    But the fact that you ... "squint" against the interests of Russia ... is already unforgivable ...
    - Or are you a representative of the people who were going to quietly appropriate what lies nearby from neighbors ...... - Once, during the events on Damanskoye, my relatives already showed "so willing" ...- where "crayfish hibernate" ... - But today it has begun to be forgotten ... - but we can remind you ... - Hahah ...