The wanted war criminal Putin and FSB thugs (successor of the Soviet-era KGB) entourage on their way to Bejing to meet with Xi on Thursday.
RSD111 is Il-96-300PU RA-96021 #157715
RSD501 is Il-96-300PU RA-96024 #157718
RSD433 is Il-96-300PU RA-96025 #157719
RSD171 is Il-96-300 RA-96017 #157711
RSD972 is Tu-214VPU RA-64517 #14FC05
Dear Xi, Don't leave your drink near any FSB, you are well aware they like to poison.
Putin ist zu Besuch in China - beim engsten Partner und Verbündeten. Doch nicht alle Anliegen, mit denen der russische Staatschef nach Peking gereist ist, dürften für China so leicht zu erfüllen sein. Von Benjamin Eyssel.
It’s part of a broader trade overhaul for key American allies in #Asia, including major economies like #SouthKorea and #Japan. Both are seeing a bigger share of exports heading to the #US at the expense of #China
Besuch in Peking: Warum Putin auf Xis Unterstützung hofft
Russlands Staatschef Putin reist nach China, um die "grenzenlose Partnerschaft" zu pflegen. Die hat Tücken: "Je destruktiver das russische Agieren, desto heikler die russisch-chinesischen Beziehungen", sagt Experte Hoppe.
Today #Russia and #China play best friends forever and #USSR had been traditionally placed in the same “communist” basked as China. Some fun facts that especially tankies are getting completely wrong today.^1
Since 1950’s China and USSR were actually conflicted over each other’s interpretations of #Marxism and in 1960’s the conflict nearly escalated into a full-scale nuclear war between the two countries.
China criticised CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union) over Soviet invasion of #Czechoslovakia (1968)^2 and “Brezhnev Doctrine” which denounced any Marxism version outside of the Soviet one as “reactionary” (Marxist newspeak for “heresy”). This included both Czechoslovak reforms and Mao’s Cultural Revolution in equal manner. At that time China actually developed complex relations with Eastern Bloc countries such as Romania and Czechoslovakia behind Kremlin’s back.
Essentially, everyone called each other “reactionary” and claimed their Marxism is the correct one. Any resemblance to past religious wars is entirely incidental. 😉 In 1968 Chinese diplomat Zhou Enlai speaking in Romanian embassy in Beijing called Soviets for “fascist politics, great power chauvinism, national egoism and social imperialism”.^3
Does that ring any bells? 😉
Soviets and China had a number of unresolved border issues in Manchuria. In 1968 China started escalating these, actually killing Soviet border guards. Moscow, knowing of China’s nuclear weapons and Mao’s confrontative attitude preferred to deescalate… which only encouraged Chinese.
Does that remind anything from contemporary history? 😉
At the peak of the conflict in 1969 USSR found itself in the position of a country with high-tech army challenged by a low-tech army which relied on millions of conscripts and human wave tactics.
Does this ring any bells? 😉
In 1969 Soviet army managed to push back overwhelming several Chinese offensives near the island of Zhenbao in spite of their overwhelming numbers with ratios up to 1:10 Soviet to Chinese. That was possible primarily due to the technical advantage, such as then-advanced T-62 tanks.
A ceasefire was signed in 1969 - on Chinese side by the very same Zhou Enlai who called Soviets “fascists” only a year before, but the actual peace agreement was only signed in 1991. The conflict was only completely resolved in 2008 (!) when Russia ceded 340 km² of the disputed lands to China.
As you can see, contrary to the mythology carefully constructed by modern “geopolitical realists”, there’s nothing constant in Russian or Soviet policies. Russia can not always win armed conflicts, it can cede territories and in general conflicts can be won in spite of imbalance of power. Oh, and calling others “fascists” was used by everyone and Russia was both an user and a recipient of this nomination.
5 takeaways from Biden's tariff hikes on Chinese electric vehicles
"Biden wants to cut emissions in a specific way, which is why EVs and other clean industries are getting both giant subsidies and protectionist tariffs. He wants a U.S.-based green energy supply chain — from raw materials all the way to finished products — with American jobs, preferably union jobs, at every step."
"In mission to #Beijing, the newly invested Prince of #Moscow presents tribute to the Emperor of #China, in order to be recognized as the leader of Muscovy "
"President Joe #Biden will dispatch former #US officials to #Taiwan as its new president takes office, a show of support for the island calibrated to avoid enraging #Beijing
They are saying the quiet part OUT LOUD! 📢
Speaking Tuesday in the upper house of Russian parliament, Foreign Minister #SergeyLavrov said #Moscow and #Beijing are “objectively interested in maintaining our lead in efforts to establish a more fair and democratic world order.”
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
Compare with #US, which has barred #Israel’s FULL-SCALE invasion of #Rafah.
Putin says Russia is prepared to negotiate over Ukraine, just like #Hamas says it’s prepared to negotiate with Israel.
#China claims to be neutral but backs Russian position that it was provoked into attacking Ukraine by the West, despite Putin’s public avowals of his #RevanchistDreams
Chinese Communist Party-linked network behind 'well-funded' anti-Israel campus protests, group says (www.foxnews.com)