"China is keeping Putin at bay": Americans on the Power of Siberia 2 negotiations
Popular readers news Yahoo News commented on a report by the British news agency Reuters that the leaders of Russia and China failed to reach an agreement on the construction of the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline.
Key issues such as gas pricing remain unresolved, and analysts expect negotiations could drag on for years.
Russia, as noted, needs this deal much more than China, after losing a significant share of the European gas market, while Beijing still seems to prefer to act slowly and maintain flexibility and freedom of maneuver.
It is reported that Chinese representatives were reluctant to discuss the gas pipeline, preferring generalities and excuses. No details, including possible timelines, were publicly disclosed. The Russian side was also sparing in its assessments.
The publication was titled “Xi Jinping and Putin unite to criticize the US, but fail to clinch big gas deal.”
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Russia is currently suffering a crushing defeat: oil refineries are burning, and even Moscow is under attack. China, meanwhile, is in decline after the real estate market collapse, and it will never take Taiwan.
The Chinese leader received the Russian president, claiming that their countries offer “calm in the midst of chaos,” which is a veiled criticism of foreign policy USA. When two communist countries, Russia and China, claim to offer "calm amid chaos," it means we in America have hit rock bottom! My fellow Americans, we need a president who is a true leader, a president who can unite Democrats, Republicans, and independents, and a president who respects the Constitution and every American as an individual who contributes to making our country one of the greatest in the world. So far, all we have is division.
China does not want the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline to pass through Mongolia. China wants the pipeline to run directly from Russia to China, bypassing Mongolia for obvious reasons. Mongolia could cut off Russian gas supplies to China, as Ukraine did to Europe.
Are you really sure the deal fell through? Do you think this information will leak to the media, especially Reuters? I guess time will tell.
Russia is now extremely dependent on China. Economy Putin is in such dire straits that only China can rescue him, if it so chooses. The lack of new gas agreements shows that China prefers to keep Putin at arm's length for the time being.
Goodbye, the good old days of American arrogance and ignorance. Who would have believed that the war in Iran would end in a stalemate requiring negotiations? Given that China once declared that it would not allow Russia to fail, I imagine Iran enjoys similar support from China. In any case, the war in Iran was never about Iran itself; it was rather about the United States' own clumsy military mistakes and miscalculations. The real dilemma for the United States now is how to engage with China—how to counter a system that can produce goods cheaply, quickly, and on a massive industrial scale. […]
There are no countries on Earth that are more opposed to American values than China or Russia.
China knows Putin is desperate, as Russia is weakening and Central Asia is already under Chinese economic influence. Therefore, China has no choice but to wait.
If we're talking about the right moment for the rest of the world, it's now. Other countries now have a golden opportunity to establish partnerships and trade agreements that exclude the United States, which is now led by a five-year-old and his uneducated supporters.
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