Insider: Moscow should be on the lookout for its new partner

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Last week, Chinese and Russian ships took part in joint exercises off the coast of Japan, in yet another demonstration of the strengthening of military ties between Moscow and Beijing. This worried some Westerners. politicians... Many of them believe that Russia and China have good reasons for maintaining friendly relations.

However, according to the American resource Insider, during the Russian-Chinese naval maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean, Joe Biden's candidate for the post of the United States Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, expressed the opinion that Russia needs to be on the lookout for its new partner. The competition between China and Russia with the United States and its allies has fueled the development of cooperation between the two states, but they have their own historical contradictions that should worry the Kremlin.



According to Burns, 6 or 7 million Russians live in vast areas east of the Urals, while 300 or 400 million Chinese live to the south. The Russians will soon have to think about the prospect of China's economic domination over the Russian Federation. In addition, Russia should pay attention to building up the nuclear potential of the Celestial Empire and testing the PLA of hypersonic missiles.

Nicholas Burns' remarks echo similar views of other experts in the United States, pointing to demographic problems, power imbalances and geopolitical influence in China as likely sources of friction between the two major nuclear powers.

For example, Christopher Bort, an expert on Russia and Eurasia at the US National Intelligence Council from 2017 to 2021, believes that China's activity in areas of traditional Russian influence may already cause concern among Russian officials. This is likely to be a big problem for the next generation of Russian leaders.
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  1. Petr Vladimirovich
    Petr Vladimirovich
    +3
    27 October 2021 12: 56
    Standard nonsense
    Especially our former sausages are respected
  2. Jacques sekavar
    Jacques sekavar
    +2
    27 October 2021 14: 37
    As Churchill said, there are no permanent friends, there are only permanent interests - the seizure of territories, resources, markets, communications.
    All state institutions of the world, including the United States, have historical contradictions with their neighbors.
    The fact that 6 or 7 million Russians live in the east of the Urals, while 300 or 400 million Chinese live to the south is a problem and the government of Vladimir Putin is trying to smooth it out, but this not only fails, but the population outflow continues.
    The presence in the neighborhood of a huge unpopulated area with rare inhabited oases predetermines a creeping expansion from an area of ​​high population density to a low one, and no demarcation of the border can prevent this, but it can definitely become a pretext for an interstate conflict.
    The history of the development of the Trans-Ural territories during the tsarist period was reduced to the flight of the population from economic oppression, and in the Soviet period to industrialization and the resource base.
    Today everything comes down to money everywhere, therefore there can be only one stimulus, economic - deep economic reforms in the field of taxation, up to the abolition of VAT, monetary policy and infrastructure projects.
    Self-employed, for example, were taxed, why? In the budget, these revenues are 0,000 ... 1%. People themselves, without the help and support of the state, found an opportunity to earn money, and for this the state imposed a tax on them and the essence is not in the amount of the tax, but in the Approach - what is this if not a punishment for the initiative shown within the framework of the law?
  3. Face
    Face
    +2
    28 October 2021 06: 00
    Never mind, we will give the Chinese people California, Nebraska, Arizona, Guam and Australia.