☭o52| the illusion that this is a partnership of equals, but it’s not...
[ooc: I found this article earlier today, and I found it to be so interesting. I'm going to just post a couple excerpts from it, but here's the link to the full article.]
Russia’s burgeoning friendship with China is a neat match of the world’s biggest energy producer and its biggest energy consumer. And not only does China have the cash to buy Russian oil, gas, steel, and aluminum just as fast as it can be pumped or mined-but it attaches no tiresome lecture on the evils of fossil fuels or authoritarian rule to its payment. Why wouldn’t Russia choose friends in Beijing rather than in Europe?
Strangely Dimitri found a clean set of clothing today, this gave him an opportunity to take a shower, freshen up and finally chill. Sitting in a vacant sitting room, Dimitri reads an interesting news article, it's titled Tangled by China Ties-Why Moscow should beware Beijing. Even though Beijing is his sister city, Moscow has always felt weary about this one. He just never really gave off an air of someone to be trusted. Of course Dimitri of all people would know because he himself is no one to be trusted. But as they say it takes one to know one.
Anyway, Dimitri starts reading the article and certain points stick out to him:
Simple: a year ago, President Dmitry Medvedev correctly diagnosed Russia’s basic malaise as overdependence on exporting raw materials-which breeds a multitude of sins, chief among them a bloated, corrupt bureaucracy and an economy at the mercy of the world’s commodities markets. He argued that Russia’s future lies not in “a primitive economy based on raw materials and endemic corruption” but in a knowledge economy based on Russian brainpower. But hitching Russia’s economy ever more closely to China’s achieves the exact opposite: instead of breaking Russia’s dependence on its mineral wealth, it deepens it.
Dimitri chuckles, should it really matter that such things are happening? It's a beneficial relationship; we all get what we want in the end, correct?
Indeed, since 2007 China has cut back dramatically on purchases of Russian military hardware-largely because the People’s Liberation Army had worked out how to produce its own close copies of Russian military aircraft, space-launch vehicles, submarines, and warships. In other words, China has used Russian know-how and Russian energy to turn Russian steel and aluminum into high-tech products-relegating Russia to a simple provider of raw materials, while China adds the value, trades with the world, and makes the big bucks.
Another low chuckle escapes the man, that's how it is in this world of ours. You say you are friends in front of the while world. When in reality it's just a game where you are either the one moving the pawn or you yourself as the pawn. In other words it's seems like Mama is being played by China. It happens to the best of us, right?
He snots as he finishes reading the article, tossing the paper on the coffee table, he props his feet up on it. Taking a sip from his steaming mug of tea, he closes his eyes...feel free to bother him.
Russia’s burgeoning friendship with China is a neat match of the world’s biggest energy producer and its biggest energy consumer. And not only does China have the cash to buy Russian oil, gas, steel, and aluminum just as fast as it can be pumped or mined-but it attaches no tiresome lecture on the evils of fossil fuels or authoritarian rule to its payment. Why wouldn’t Russia choose friends in Beijing rather than in Europe?
Strangely Dimitri found a clean set of clothing today, this gave him an opportunity to take a shower, freshen up and finally chill. Sitting in a vacant sitting room, Dimitri reads an interesting news article, it's titled Tangled by China Ties-Why Moscow should beware Beijing. Even though Beijing is his sister city, Moscow has always felt weary about this one. He just never really gave off an air of someone to be trusted. Of course Dimitri of all people would know because he himself is no one to be trusted. But as they say it takes one to know one.
Anyway, Dimitri starts reading the article and certain points stick out to him:
Simple: a year ago, President Dmitry Medvedev correctly diagnosed Russia’s basic malaise as overdependence on exporting raw materials-which breeds a multitude of sins, chief among them a bloated, corrupt bureaucracy and an economy at the mercy of the world’s commodities markets. He argued that Russia’s future lies not in “a primitive economy based on raw materials and endemic corruption” but in a knowledge economy based on Russian brainpower. But hitching Russia’s economy ever more closely to China’s achieves the exact opposite: instead of breaking Russia’s dependence on its mineral wealth, it deepens it.
Dimitri chuckles, should it really matter that such things are happening? It's a beneficial relationship; we all get what we want in the end, correct?
Indeed, since 2007 China has cut back dramatically on purchases of Russian military hardware-largely because the People’s Liberation Army had worked out how to produce its own close copies of Russian military aircraft, space-launch vehicles, submarines, and warships. In other words, China has used Russian know-how and Russian energy to turn Russian steel and aluminum into high-tech products-relegating Russia to a simple provider of raw materials, while China adds the value, trades with the world, and makes the big bucks.
Another low chuckle escapes the man, that's how it is in this world of ours. You say you are friends in front of the while world. When in reality it's just a game where you are either the one moving the pawn or you yourself as the pawn. In other words it's seems like Mama is being played by China. It happens to the best of us, right?
He snots as he finishes reading the article, tossing the paper on the coffee table, he props his feet up on it. Taking a sip from his steaming mug of tea, he closes his eyes...feel free to bother him.
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