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They’ve got plenty of opportunities with China.

• bojan 5y ago
  That is such an unequal relationship. China is not kind to its colonies.
  • emteycz 5y ago
    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
  • deleted 5y ago
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• jorblumesea 5y ago
  At the cost of almost everything. China has vassals, not partners.
• sandworm101 5y ago
  For now. But we are already seeing a few chinks in that armor. China prizes stability. Countries that start wars over imagined slights do not promote stability. China's largesse is not unlimited nor does it ever come without a price.
  • mc32 5y ago
    Maybe… their relationship with North Korea pints too exceptions to that.
  • vnchr 5y ago
    They waited to go to war until after the Beijing Olympics, in coordination with China [0]. And China has been cheering them on [1]. Looks like someone made a friend. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/politics/russia-ukraine-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/politics/russia-ukrain... [1] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/10/china/china-russia-disinformation-campaign-ukraine-intl-dst-hnk/index.html https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/10/china/china-russia-disinf...
    • dragonwriter 5y ago
      > They waited to go to war until after the Beijing Olympics, in coordination with China. And China has been cheering them on. Looks like someone made a friend. Friends don't make friends delay invasions so that they will get bogged down in mud, or egg them on in disastrous courses of action that happen to serve the geopolitical interest of the cheerleader by consuming attention of geopolitical rivals. That's callous exploitation, not friendship.
    • sandworm101 5y ago
      Crimea was invaded days after the 2014 Sochi games. The rest of Ukraine days after the 2022 Beijing games. It's becoming a Russian tradition.
      • type0 5y ago
        If China allows after 2026 Winter Olympics it will be the Kazakhstans turn.
        • rurban 5y ago
          More like Georgia. In Kazakhstan the threat are socialists only
  • KennyBlanken 5y ago
    It's not over an 'imagined slight', but bringing back in old soviet states, weakening the EU/NATO (or preventing its expansion), and capturing Ukraine's agriculture and industry, both of which are significant, but the economy was also $800BN compared to Russia's $4400BN and it would have been a sizeable addition. China is somewhat happy to support those goals; while everyone is fussing with Putin, they get to kick off expansion in the south china sea.
  • tablespoon 5y ago
    > For now. But we are already seeing a few chinks in that armor. China prizes stability. Countries that start wars over imagined slights do not promote stability. China's largesse is not unlimited nor does it ever come without a price. China definitely prizes domestic stability, but its current leadership is also not keen on a stable US-led international order.
  • MrRiddle 5y ago
    Russia absolutely made their move after consultation with China. We’re seeing Nato vs China/Russia unfolding
• whatever1 5y ago
  And China will not not notice that it is the sole buyer of Russian products? What Putin did to Ukraine, made Russia smaller and weaker, and there is no going back.
  • seanmcdirmid 5y ago
    China wants to export a bunch of stuff to Russia as well. They aren't going to ruin that two way relationship just to get a discount on agri imports.
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  There have been a number of negative indicators on that front in the last couple days, most recently: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-says-china-refuses-supply-aircraft-parts-after-sanctions-2022-03-10/ https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-sa...