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I don't think they're giving away the timber. It is a commercial exchange like any other.
by coliveira 1y ago
I don't think they're giving away the timber. It is a commercial exchange like any other.
- trhway 1y agoYes, it is a massive sale of natural resources with huge discounts in exchange for the war support.
- cpursley 1y agoSource for the discounts? (reddit and x are not a sources btw)
- themafia 1y agoThey've been selling forestry products for decades. North Korea is also a big customer. Unsurprisingly, nations with existing and exclusive economic ties, tend to "support" each other. North America does this with South America readily.
- olalonde 1y agoWhat "war support"? China trades with Russia, as it does with Ukraine. It doesn't support a side in particular.
- trhway 1y agoThere are a lot of thing which are clearly "war support", yet it would be a long and frankly pointless discussion, so i'll just refer to China's own words: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/04/europe/china-ukraine-eu-war-intl https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/04/europe/china-ukraine-eu-war-i... "Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine..."
- cpursley 1y agoHim or some other pointed out to some important EU person that if they (China, an industrial powerhouse) were actually supporting Russian war efforts, the war would already be over.