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[QUOTE]ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week in Shanghai marked that Russia-China relations have entered a new stage, and that the two countries will roll out all-around cooperation.
Putin made the comment in reply to a question on China-Russia ties raised by Zhou Shuchun, vice president of the Xinhua News Agency, during his meeting with representatives of world leading news agencies at the 18th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Putin also said that the consensus reached and agreements signed in Shanghai demonstrated a big step forward for the relations between Russia and China.
The gas deal inked on Wednesday in Shanghai was historic and significant to both countries, Putin said. For Russia, it is an important opportunity to enter the largest market in the Asia-Pacific, while more natural gas use in China will help the country improve its energy mix and ecological environment in its large cities, Putin said.
Putin expressed the hope that Russia and China will continue to strengthen cooperation in nuclear energy, aviation, outer space exploration, medical care and public health, finance, and agriculture.
The two countries have started local currency settlement in bilateral trade and will strengthen cooperation in this respect, Putin added.
Putin was in Shanghai this week for a state visit and for a summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
China and Russia on Wednesday signed a long-awaited gas deal in Shanghai, ending a decade of natural gas supply talks between the two neighbors.
In reply to questions raised by leaders of other news agencies, Putin said Russia and China will jointly celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory over fascism next year. He urged people not to forget the historical disaster of World War II.
On Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine, Putin said Russia will respect the choice of the Ukrainian people and will cooperate with the new authorities. But he held that presidential election in Ukraine should be preceded by a referendum to revise its constitution.
Putin said that sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine issue are counterproductive and will lead the Russian, European and global economy to turbulence that is in no one's interests.
The ongoing St. Petersburg International Economic Forum shows the willingness of many foreign companies to invest in Russia, said Putin. Citizens in many European countries do not support sanctions against Russia, and policies should be based on people's will, he added.
Russia hopes to have fair dialogues on an equal footing with Western countries so as to solve problems in a peaceful way and to have cooperation, he said.[/QUOTE]
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That's a lot of red, should I be scared?
but seriously, it seems like China is just completely ignoring the whole Ukraine thing(like abstaining from votes related to it in the UN). I wonder if they will receive some form of sanctions from the international community for so readily dealing with Russia right now with everything going on.
It seems like Putin is really going to try to "take on" the EU with his own collaboration of forcefully taken states and China, I wonder who else will jump aboard the Putin train in the coming years.
I had no idea my life predicted the future.
Everyone abuses Chinese man and Russian woman
Chinese man marries Russian
Together they get into college and start making loads more money.
So... I'm going to grab my wife and go talk to some foreigners. That way next year you guys can read in the news, Chinese-Russian astronauts make first contact with alien life, aliens offer inexpensive labour.
[QUOTE=Comrade_Eko;44911893]I had no idea my life predicted the future.
Everyone abuses Chinese man and Russian woman
Chinese man marries Russian
Together they get into college and start making loads more money.
So... I'm going to grab my wife and go talk to some foreigners. That way next year you guys can read, Chinese-Russian astronauts make first contact with alien life, aliens offer inexpensive labour.[/QUOTE]
What?
"This isn't the new Cold War."
- Everyone, all the time
At this point, all the title evokes in me is Valdimir Putin x Xi Jinping rule 34
[QUOTE=Comrade_Eko;44911893]angry chink[/QUOTE]
the people who abused u will end up working in ur family owned gulag.
i wish i could bag me a russian but when i talk to them they say ' cyka '
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THE AXIS OF [B][I]EVIL[/I][/B]
Red Star Alliance from Frontlines?
I don't get why they are vilified. they're neighbours. It's only natural that they'd be close in their affairs.
It's as natural as canada's ties with the usa
[QUOTE=godfatherk;44912248]I don't get why they are vilified. they're neighbours. It's only natural that they'd be close in their affairs.
It's as natural as canada's ties with the usa[/QUOTE]
Red scare.
[QUOTE=frozensoda;44911861]That's a lot of red, should I be scared?
but seriously, it seems like China is just completely ignoring the whole Ukraine thing(like abstaining from votes related to it in the UN). I wonder if they will receive some form of sanctions from the international community for so readily dealing with Russia right now with everything going on.
It seems like Putin is really going to try to "take on" the EU with his own collaboration of forcefully taken states and China, I wonder who else will jump aboard the Putin train in the coming years.[/QUOTE]
So a country should be punished for remaining neutral?
[QUOTE=frozensoda;44911861]That's a lot of red, should I be scared?
but seriously, it seems like China is just completely ignoring the whole Ukraine thing(like abstaining from votes related to it in the UN). I wonder if they will receive some form of sanctions from the international community for so readily dealing with Russia right now with everything going on.
It seems like Putin is really going to try to "take on" the EU with his own collaboration of forcefully taken states and China, I wonder who else will jump aboard the Putin train in the coming years.[/QUOTE]Reason China is abstaining is because they don't give a shit. They tend to prefer not getting involved in political rows not related to their many territorial disputes with their neighbours.
Tbh they probably saw Russia would suffer from sanctions, and figured they could offer them a deal they couldn't refuse.
[QUOTE=darkgodmaste;44912388]So a country should be punished for remaining neutral?[/QUOTE]
Yes. The Swiss will weep and rue the day they decided to mind their own business.
Putin in the back, going "dance my puppets"
[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;44913427]Putin in the back, going "dance my puppets"[/QUOTE]
Honestly, if anyone's going to be in control, it's gonna be China.
So there actually is a possibility for some kinda Eastern Coalition, after all? With this recent development it's starting to get creepily plausible, though it's still miles off from a full-on merger/acquisition/founding of a new union.
You guys really have a boner for conflict and international aggression.
[QUOTE=Vlevs;44911979]"This isn't the new Cold War."
- Everyone, all the time[/QUOTE]
the cold war had an arms race
the cold war had brinkmanship
the cold war had proxy wars
the cold war had occurred in an atmosphere of [I]immense[/I] fear and paranoia, incomparable to the kind we have right now. i'm not talking about some people sitting in kansas getting kind of nervous about putin, i'm talking the majority of the nation fearing that they're not going to exist tomorrow because of nuclear annihilation.
so what do we have, right now?
civil unrest in a single post-soviet eastern european nation, with politicians engaging in politics as usual by spitting short-sighted rhetoric.
the conflict in ukraine is about economic interests and self-determination, rather than the propagation of (or the attempt to contain) a political ideology. nobody is trying to spread or contain a mode of government or social structure.
Putin looks like a proud dad waching his kids win some award
[QUOTE=joes33431;44914349]nobody is trying to spread or contain a mode of government or social structure.[/QUOTE]
Russia got mad when Ukraine started leaning towards the EU. that's kind of similar
Not that surprising. You've got a country (China) that is working really hard to acquire more natural resources like oil to fuel its huge population, and another country (Russia) that has a vast supply of said resources. Plus they're neighbors. It's not weird at all.
[QUOTE=maxumym;44913643]Honestly, if anyone's going to be in control, it's gonna be China.[/QUOTE]
It's kind of funny though, Russia seems be pretty much setting part of China's foreign policy. It's always Russia who has an actual issue at the U.N. and a Chinese vote is always a given for Russia.
[QUOTE=joshdasmif;44914463]Russia got mad when Ukraine started leaning towards the EU. that's kind of similar[/QUOTE]
that's more about economic alliances than a specific belief system.
i can't remember the specific name (eurasian economic union, i think), but iirc putin wanted to form a competitor to the EU with ukraine as a member.
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