China – Page 4 – Johnson's Russia List

Johnson's Russia List

NEWSWATCH: “Pentagon: China, Russia Outpace Terrorism Threat” – AP

January 22, 2018 JRL Russia List JRL NewsBlog, Military, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Aerial Photo of Pentagon and Environs

“Countering China’s rapidly expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia are now the U.S. military’s top national security priorities, outpacing the threat of terrorism, the Pentagon said …. A new national defense strategy says that competition with China and Russia has threatened America’s military advantage around the world. … require[ing] increased investment to make U.S. forces more lethal, agile and […]

Leave a comment China, James Mattis, JRL NewsBlog, Military, Newswatch, Pentagon, Slider, U.S. Military, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSLINK: “Silk Road fever grips the Russian Far East and boosts economy; China’s Belt and Road Initiative heralds a new era with mega infrastructure projects dotting the landscape” – Asia Times

December 13, 2017 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Newslinks

Asia Map

“… [a] new state-of-the-art $1.5 billion Bystrinsky plant … [l]ocated about 400 kilometers from the Chinese border by rail and tucked inside the Trans-Baikal region of Siberian … is now finally open for business. This mining and processing complex … contains up to 343 million tonnes of ore reserves … a joint venture between Russian and Chinese companies. …”

Leave a comment Asia, Business, China, Economy, Far East, Minerals, Newslinks, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade

Recession Recoveries In Russia, Brazil Help Lift World Growth To Six-Year High

December 12, 2017 JRL Russia List Brazil, BRICS, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade

File Photo of UN Building with Flags

(Article ©2017 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – December 12, 2017 – also appeared at rferl.org/a/recession-recoveries-russia-brazil-help-lift-world-growth-six-year-high-3-percent-2011/28911154.html) World economic growth rose this year to 3 percent, the strongest rate since 2011, aided by recoveries from recession in Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and NIgeria, the United Nations has estimated. In its annual report on global growth on December 11, the UN […]

Leave a comment Brazil, BRICS, China, Crisis, Economy, GDP, Recession, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade, United Nations

NEWSWATCH: “Gazprom spends big to keep trillion dollar dream alive; Russian gas exporter ramps up borrowing and raids cashpile to maintain growth” – Financial Times/ Henry Foy

November 30, 2017 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, JRL NewsBlog, Oil, Gas, Energy

Gas Facility file photo

“In an effort to fight back, Gazprom is …. [r]amping up borrowing and raiding its … cash pile … splurging on critical new infrastructure …. it announced that it expected to spend 24 per cent more this year on long-term investment, capital expenditure and acquisitions previously forecast. … next year’s spending [is projected to] hit a record Rbs 1.28tn ($22bn), up 13 per cent on […]

Leave a comment Baltics, Black Sea, Business, China, Economy, Energy, Gas, Gazprom, Germany, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Nord Stream, Russia, Russian News, Sanctions, Slider, Trade, Turkey, U.S.-Russian Relations

Russian LNG Unfazed By U.S. Sanctions

November 6, 2017 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Oil, Gas, Energy, Sanctions, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Asia Map

(Oilprice.com – Tsvetana Paraskova – November 2, 2017) Russia’s energy industry faces a new round of U.S. sanctions – including on oil projects in any location if a designated entity holds more than 33 percent. And in Europe, where Russia’s gas giant Gazprom currently holds a large share of the gas supplies, Poland and Lithuania are buying U.S. LNG in […]

Leave a comment China, Energy, Far East, Gas, Gazprom, LNG, Russia, Russian News, Sanctions, Trade, U.S.-Russian Relations

RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “Vladimir Putin’s news conference following BRICS Summit”- KremlinRu

September 6, 2017 JRL Russia List Brazil, BRICS, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, India, South Africa, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Kremlin.ru – September 5, 2017) Vladimir Putin answered Russian journalists’ questions following his visit to China to take part in the BRICS Summit. Vladimir Putin summed up the results of the BRICS Summit and his talks with foreign leaders on the Summit’s sidelines, and shared his perspective on pressing international issues. Transcript of the news conference for Russian journalists President […]

Leave a comment Brazil, BRICS, China, Crimea, Donbas, Donetsk, Economy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, India, Luhansk, Military, Occupied Crimea, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Russo-Ukrainian War, Slider, South Africa, Trade, Transcripts, U.S. Military, U.S.-Russian Relations, Ukraine, Ukrainian Economy, Ukrainian Government, Ukrainian Military, Ukrainian News, Ukrainian Politics

RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] Meeting of BRICS leaders with delegation heads from invited states”

September 6, 2017 JRL Russia List Brazil, BRICS, China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, South Africa

(Kremlin.ru – September 5, 2017) Vladimir Putin attended a meeting of BRICS leaders with delegation heads from invited states, including the heads of state and government of Egypt, Tajikistan, Mexico, Guinea and Thailand. The meeting participants discussed the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and prospects for further developing their partner relations. Before the meeting, the BRICS leaders […]

Leave a comment Brazil, BRICS, China, Foreign Policy, India, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Slider, South Africa, Trade

RUSSIALINK TRANSCRIPT: “[Putin at] BRICS Summit” – KremlinRu

September 4, 2017 JRL Russia List Brazil, BRICS, China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, India, South Africa

(Kremlin.ru – Sept. 4, 2017) Vladimir Putin took part in a meeting of the BRICS leaders that was held within the framework of the two-day BRICS summit in Xiamen, China. President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of China Xi Jinping, President of Brazil Michel Temer, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and President of South Africa Jacob Zuma met in […]

Leave a comment Brazil, BRICS, China, India, Russia, Russian News, Slider, South Africa

RUSSIALINK: “BRICS: Towards New Horizons of Strategic Partnership” – KremlinRu/

September 1, 2017 JRL Russia List Brazil, BRICS, China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, India, South Africa

(Kremlin.ru – September 1, 2017) Vladimir Putin’s article BRICS: Towards New Horizons of Strategic Partnership was published ahead of the BRICS Summit, which will be held in Xiamen, China, on September 4 and 5. The 9th BRICS Summit will be held in Xiamen, China, on September 4 and 5. I consider it important in this regard to present Russia’s approaches […]

Leave a comment Brazil, BRICS, China, Economy, Foreign Policy, India, Russia, Russian News, Slider, South Africa, Trade

Russia Expands Grip on Wheat Exports as Asia Set to Buy More

August 31, 2017 JRL Russia List Agriculture, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, India

File Photo of Wheat Field in Kenya, adapted from image at usda.gov

(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Manisha Jha, Anatoly Medetsky – August 31, 2017) Russia, the world’s biggest wheat exporter, is about to grab even more customers in the fast-growing economies of Asia — a region that normally gets most of its imported grain from somewhere else. A farm industry that emerged from the former Soviet Union to become a wheat-trade powerhouse […]

Leave a comment Agriculture, Asia, Business, China, Economy, Far East, Farming, Farms, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Wheat

Russia Braces for Permanent Sanctions From the U.S.; Moscow was hopeful Trump would loosen sanctions. Instead, he made them permanent.

August 8, 2017 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Sanctions, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Portion of U.S. Treasury Department Building Facade, North Side, with Sculpture of Alexander Hamilton

(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Henry Meyer, Anna Andrianova – August 8, 2017) Andrey Kostin, a former Soviet diplomat in London who runs Russia’s second-largest bank, was jubilant when Donald Trump was elected last year. “We may soon see U.S. financial sanctions eased or even lifted,” he said at the time. Now, he’s changed his tune as his state-run VTB Group, […]

Leave a comment China, Crisis, Economy, Energy, Engineering, Finance, Investment, Oil, Recession, Sanctions, Science, Slider, Technology, Trade, U.S.-Russian Relations

TRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Joint news conference with President of Finland Sauli Niinisto (Q&A excerpt)

July 28, 2017 JRL Russia List Europe, EU, Finland, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Military, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

European Portion of Commonwealth of Independent States

(Kremlin.ru – July 27, 2017) Vladimir Putin and Sauli Niinisto gave a joint news conference following bilateral talks. Question from Yle (retranslated): My question concerns the military exercises conducted jointly by China and Russia in the Baltic Sea. I would like to ask President Putin: What message are China and Russia sending to others, what message do they want to […]

Leave a comment Baltic Sea, Baltics, China, Finland, Government, Military, Politics, Russia, Russian News, Sauli Niinisto, Slider

NEWSWATCH: “New Challenge to U.S. Power: Chinese Exceptionalism; Once-reticent citizens now see their country as ascendant-and America in decline” – Wall Street Journal/ Te-Ping Chen, Josh Chin

July 27, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC, JRL NewsBlog, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Asia Map

… Chinese exceptionalism is on the rise. … challeng[ing] a decades-old tenet of U.S. foreign policy … that argued exposure to the West would lead Chinese to embrace Western values. … President Xi’s signature slogan, the ‘China Dream,’ appeals to Chinese who aspire to a middle-class lifestyle and cheer China’s return to international prominence. … China’s government exercises near-absolute authority over education, […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Economy, Far East, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade, U.S.-Russian Relations, United States

On Trump’s New Man in Russia, Jon Huntsman, Moscow Says ‘Wait and See’; The former China envoy is facing a tough crowd

July 20, 2017 JRL Russia List United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

File Photo of John Huntsman, Men in Military Uniforms and Others, adapted from image at army.mil

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – July 19, 2017) The appointment of reported ‘hardliner’ Jon Huntsman as the United States’ new Ambassador to Russia met with mixed reactions in Moscow on Wednesday. “It’s too early for labels,” Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko was cited as saying by the state-run TASS news agency. “[We have to] judge him by his […]

Leave a comment Alexei Pushkov, China, Dmitry Novikov, Duma, Federation Council, Jon Huntsman, Mormons, Peskov, Religion, Russia, Russian News, Slider, U.S.-Russian Relations, Valentina Matviyenko

NEWSLINK: “Beijing stirs up Russia’s backyard” – bne Intellinews

July 11, 2017 JRL Russia List Central Asia, China, Kazakhstan

Map of CIS Central Asia and Environs

“An invisible wedge has been growing between Russia and its Central Asian neighbours since Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine …. The unease is most particularly tangible in Astana. Any statements made by Russian officials that appear to put in question the statehood Kazakhstan gained after it was granted independence from the USSR prompt collective gasps. At the same time, China […]

Leave a comment Central Asia, China, Economy, Kazakhstan, Newslinks, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade

NEWSLINK: “Eurasian eyes turn east; Russia is more and more seeing China’s push West as an opportunity rather than a threat” – bne Intellinews/ Ben Aris

July 10, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Newslinks

Asia Map

“… The relationship with the Chinese state began as a trade deal, but it has become progressively more political. It was not for nothing that when Xi Jinping took office in March 2013 his first trip abroad was to Moscow. To escape its blockade by the West, Russia has tried to shape the new emerging economies such as China into […]

Leave a comment Central Asia, China, Economy, Far East, Newslinks, Russia, Russia and the West, Russian News, Slider, Trade

TRANSCRIPT: [Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping] Press statements following Russian-Chinese talks

July 5, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC

Asia Map

(Kremlin.ru – July 4, 2017) Vladimir Putin and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping made statements for the press following Russian-Chinese talks. President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr President Xi Jinping, ladies and gentlemen, The official visit to Russia by President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping is certainly the central event of this year […]

Leave a comment Asia, Central Asia, China, Far East, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Transcripts, Xi Jinping

TRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Replies to journalists’ questions (transcript continued)

May 16, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

(Kremlin.ru – May 15, 2017) Vladimir Putin answered media questions following a working visit to the People’s Republic of China. Question: Mr President, an international cyberattack was reported on May 12. It hit targets in 150 countries, including agencies, banks and companies in Russia. How much has this attack harmed Russia and the world in general? What can be done […]

Leave a comment Asia, Central Asia, China, Economy, Far East, Government, Politics, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Silk Road, Trade, Transcripts

RUSSIALINK: “A CHINESE SILK NOOSE” – Valdai Club/ Georgy Toloraya

May 16, 2017 JRL Russia List China, CIS, Customs Union, Eurasian Union, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Newslinks

Asia Map

“… In response to the Chinese initiative, Russia advanced an even more ambitious project of a Greater Eurasian Partnership … incorporate[ing] the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and even the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). … However, Russia lacks the resources and integration ties with the numerous countries of the Euro-Pacific space for implementing this ambitious […]

Leave a comment ASEAN, Asia, Central Asia, China, CIS, Customs Union, Economy, Eurasian Union, Far East, Newslinks, Pacific Rim, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Silk Road, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, U.S.-Russian Relations

TRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Replies to journalists’ questions

May 15, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

China Map

(Kremlin.ru – May 15, 2017) Vladimir Putin answered media questions following a working visit to the People’s Republic of China. President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon. Let me dispense with opening remarks and get straight on with answering any questions you may have. Please, go ahead. Question: I have a question about the forum. This was a big event. […]

Leave a comment China, Far East, Government, Politics, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Silk Road, Transcripts

TRANSCRIPT: [Putin at] Belt and Road international forum

May 15, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

Asia Map

(Kremlin.ru – May 14, 2017) Vladimir Putin spoke at the opening of the Belt and Road international forum in Beijing. The event is dedicated to China’s projects – the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Russian President has arrived in China on a two-day visit. The forum that is taking place in the Chinese capital […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Far East, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Silk Road, Slider, Trade, Transcripts

Putin’s Arms Bazaar Is in a Serious Sales Slump

April 26, 2017 JRL Russia List Arms Trade, Military Aid, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Military

File Photo of Buk-1 SAM

(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Tobin Harshaw – April 25, 2017) Tobin Harshaw writes editorials on national security, education and food for Bloomberg View. He was an editor with the op-ed page of the New York Times and the paper’s letters editor. Russian President Vladimir #Putin is mighty proud of his #military’s performance in #Syria. And, as I have written, it’s […]

Leave a comment Algeria, Arms Trade, Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Military, Nigeria, Oil, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade, Vietnam

Russia Still Migrant Magnet Even as Wages Stay Below China’s

April 19, 2017 JRL Russia List Central Asia, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Population Disaster, Demographics

Russian Migrant Workers file photo

(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Olga Tanas – April 19, 2017) The vast pool of labor across Russia’s porous borders is relieving strains in the labor market, helping drain the economy of inflationary pressure as it accelerates after almost two years of recession. A steady flow of arrivals has continued even as shrinking wages and Russia’s worst currency crisis since 1998 […]

Leave a comment Asia, Central Asia, China, Demographics, Economy, Immigration, Income, Labor, Migrants, Population, Poverty, Russia, Russian News, Wages, Workers

The Russia-China Partnership Remains Strong, Despite America

March 24, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC

Asia Map

(The Kennan Institute – wilsoncenter.org/program/kennan-institute – STACY CLOSSON – March 8, 2017) Dr. Stacy Closson is a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in International Relations. [Text with […]

Leave a comment China, Far East, Russia, Russian News, Slider

NEWSLINK: “U.S. Officials Won’t Say if a New Anti–Russia Propaganda Project Is Targeting Americans The newly created Global Engagement Center’s “focus and intent” is foreign audiences, but officials won’t rule out propagandizing Americans and funding American journalists.” – The Nation/Adam H. Johnson

March 13, 2017 JRL Russia List Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Newslinks, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Satellite Dishes

“On the day before Christmas Eve last year, President Obama signed the annual National Defense Authorization Act that included, in part, a $160 million revamping of the “Global Engagement Center” to combat what officials claimed was a uptick in Russian propaganda. Originally created in March of last year for anti-ISIL messaging, the Global Engagement Center distributes ‘counter’ propaganda, social media messaging and original journalistic […]

Leave a comment China, Information War, Media, Russia, Russian News, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSWATCH: “Why Trump Is Right on Russia” – New York Times/ANATOL LIEVEN

February 14, 2017 JRL Russia List JRL NewsBlog, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

File Photo of Donald Trump Waving Before Large Crowd with Trump Signs, adapted from image at whitehouse.gov

“Few of the Trump administration’s priorities have received as much criticism from the American foreign policy establishment as the president’s desire to improve relations with Russia. … This makes little sense. There are many good reasons for the United States to reach conciliation with Moscow on issues from Eastern Europe to the Middle East. … Unlike China, Russia is not […]

Leave a comment China, Donald Trump, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Russia, Russian News, Slider, U.S.-Russian Relations

Re: The Gathering Storm

February 10, 2017 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, History, Soviet Union, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Eurasia Map

Subject: The Gathering Storm Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 From: David Law <davidmurraylaw@gmail.com> The Gathering Storm By David Law Senior Associate, Security Governance Group; former Head of NATO Policy Planning and Speechwriting Unit With Donald Trump now sworn in as the American President and Commander-in-Chief, here are some thoughts on where the world may be headed. In 1948, Winston Churchill […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Donald Trump, Far East, Foreign Policy, Government, Military, Original Contribution, Politics, Russia, Russia and the West, Russian News, U.S.-Russian Relations

RUSSIALINK RBTH: Russia may benefit from Trans-Pacific Partnership collapse

January 27, 2017 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Asia Map

One of Donald Trump’s first decisions as U.S. president was to pullout from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. This gives Russia and China a chance to jumpstart talks on setting up free trade areas with Asian partners. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – KSENIYA ILYINSKAYA, SPECIAL TO RBTH – January 27, 2017) On his first day in office following […]

Leave a comment China, Economy, Far East, Pacific Rim, Russia, Russian News, Slider, TPP, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSWATCH: “Challenging the U.S., Moscow Pushes Into Afghanistan. Russian inroads complicate U.S. efforts to strengthen the government, stamp out the Taliban and end America’s longest war.” – Wall Street Journal

January 27, 2017 JRL Russia List Afghanistan, Central Asia, JRL NewsBlog, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Afghanistan Map of Ethnicities

“#Russia is making fresh inroads into #Afghanistan that could complicate U.S. efforts to strengthen the fragile #Kabul government, stamp out the resilient #Taliban insurgency and end America’s longest war. Moscow last month disclosed details of contacts with the Taliban, saying that it is sharing information and cooperating with the radical movement … to fight the local affiliate of #IslamicState, which […]

Leave a comment Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, ISIL, Islamic State, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Pakistan, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Taliban, Terrorism, U.S.-Russian Relations, United States

NEWSWATCH: “China Goes Food Shopping-to Russia; ‘Everything that can be consumed by a human being in China is something they’re interested in,’ Russian official says” – Wall Street Journal/AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN/Liyan Qi

January 17, 2017 JRL Russia List Agriculture, China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, JRL NewsBlog

Asia Map

China bought more than $1 billion in food products from Russia last year, replacing Turkey as the top importer of Russian foodstuffs. … central to Russia’s economic and political pivot toward Asia, as the Russian economy continues to suffer under Western sanctions and the low price of oil, and U.S.-Russian relations deteriorate …. Russia and China … describe current relations […]

Leave a comment Agriculture, Asia, China, Crisis, Economy, Far East, Food, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Recession, Russia, Russian News, Sanctions, Slider, Trade

Russia Is Finally Making Headway In Its Pivot East

November 23, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade

Asia Map

(Oilprice.com – Colin Chilcoat – November 22, 2016) Russia’s long planned pivot east found itself unexpectedly wrong-footed in early 2014, following the Crimean referendum and subsequent western rebuke. The global collapse of oil prices – and that of the ruble – later that same year further eroded Russia’s leverage in Asia. Fast forward to the present and we’ve seen substantially […]

Leave a comment Asia, Business, China, Energy, Far East, Gas, Oil, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade

Russia’s Strategic Calculus: Threat Perceptions and Military Doctrine

November 14, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Europe, EU, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Military, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Mercator Projection Satellite Image of Earth

(PONARS Policy Memo – PONARS Eurasia – ponarseurasia.org – Dmitry Gorenburg – November 11, 2016) Dmitry Gorenburg is Senior Research Scientist at CNA Corporation and Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Russian foreign policy is driven by the political elites’ search for a new basis for national self-esteem after the collapse of the […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, EU, Europe, Far East, Foreign Policy, Military, Missile Defense, Russia, Russian News, Slider, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSLINK Forbes/Sara Hsu: “Is A Russia-China Economic Alliance On The Horizon?”

November 7, 2016 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Newslinks, Sanctions, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Asia Map

“As Russia continues to contend with sanctions from the United States and European Union after annexing Crimea in 2014, it has cast its eye on a new ally: China. The two countries are already aligning themselves for security purposes, a prime example being their position against the U.S. missile shield deployment plans in South Korea. Both China and Russia have […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Economy, Far East, Newslinks, Russia, Russian News, Sanctions, Slider, Trade, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSWATCH: “Russia Welcomes Growing Wave of ‘Red Tourists’ From China. Nostalgia for Communist past as well as capitalist bargain-hunting draw more Chinese visitors.” – Wall Street Journal

October 31, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, JRL NewsBlog

Asia Map

Russia’s relations with the West have deteriorated amid the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria and its economy has been battered by punitive sanctions and low oil prices. But the country is welcoming record numbers of Chinese visitors, who are taking advantage of a weak ruble, visa-free group travel, and the opportunity to retrace Communist history. … More than 1.1 million […]

Leave a comment China, Communists, Economy, History, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Tourism, Trade

What Putin Didn’t Get In Hangzhou

September 8, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Ukraine, Russo-Ukrainian War

Map of Commonwealth of Independent States, European Portion

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Brian Whitmore – September 8, 2016) One of the most significant things about the G20 summit was something that didn’t happen. Hangzhou didn’t become Yalta. China didn’t become Munich. But Vladimir Putin sure wanted it to. In fact, Russia’s actions in and around #Ukraine over the past month appear to have been, at least in part, […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Crimea, Donbas, Donetsk, Far East, G20, Luhansk, Military, Occupied Crimea, Russia, Russian News, Russo-Ukrainian War, Slider, Ukraine, Ukrainian Military, Ukrainian News

TRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Answers to journalists’ questions

September 7, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

(Kremlin.ru – September 5, 2016) Vladimir Putin answered Russian journalists’ questions following his working visit to China to take part in the G20 Summit. President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon. Let’s dispense with opening remarks and get straight into the discussion. I will try to answer the questions of interest to you. Question: Mr President, this year, for the […]

Leave a comment China, Economy, Far East, Foreign Policy, G20, Government, Politics, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Syria, Trade, Transcripts, Ukraine

TRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Interview to Bloomberg. Part One

September 2, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Japan, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Asia Map

(Kremlin.ru – September 2, 2016) [More complete Russian text here: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/52796] On September 1, Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the international media company Bloomberg in Vladivostok. John Micklethwait: Mr President, thank you very much for talking to Bloomberg. We are in Vladivostok, at the border of Russia, practically the Pacific Coast is its border, and this is already the […]

Leave a comment China, Far East, Japan, Putin, Russian News, Slider, Transcripts, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSWATCH: “The Sources of Russian Conduct. Kennan’s Long Telegram needs an update for Putin’s Russia.” – The National Interest/Thomas Graham

August 25, 2016 JRL Russia List JRL NewsBlog, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Eurasia Map

Writing a lengthy piece for The National Interest, Thomas E. Graham of Kissinger Associates comments upon U.S.-Russian relations. … we need to see Russia in a global context. Today, we largely see it through a European prism, which inevitably magnifies the discord between us as we fall back on memories of the Cold War…. But, if Russia is not a […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Europe, Far East, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Russia, Russian News, Slider, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSWATCH: “An Unfinished Bridge, and Partnership, Between Russia and China” – New York Times

July 18, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, JRL NewsBlog, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Russia & the West, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Asia Map

The New York Times covers Russo-Chinese relations and delays in Russia fulfilling its part of a joint arrangement to build an international bridge across the Amur River. … The bridge abruptly stops, hanging in the air high above the river just short of the Russian shore at Nizhneleninskoye …. The gap … left by Russia’s failure to build its own, […]

Leave a comment Amur River, Business, China, Far East, Government, JRL NewsBlog, Newswatch, Politics, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Slider, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSLINK Asia Times/M.K. BHADRAKUMAR: “Russia-China entente: Lofty rhetoric, shifty discourse.”

July 4, 2016 JRL Russia List China

Asia Map

Leave a comment Asia, China, Far East, Newslinks, Russia, Russian News, Slider

TRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Interview to the Xinhua News Agency of China

June 23, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC

Asia Map

(Kremlin.ru – June 23, 2016) In the run-up to his visit to the People’s Republic of China, Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Chinese news agency Xinhua. The interview was recorded on June 17 on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. Interview with Xinhua news agency. With Xinhua General Director Cai Mingzhao. President of Xinhua News Agency […]

Leave a comment China, Far East, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Transcripts

NEWSWATCH: “Putin Heads to China to Cement Ties, but Obstacles Remain” – AP

June 22, 2016 JRL Russia List China

Asia Map

With … Putin heading to China this weekend, officials in both countries extoll a blossoming ‘strategic partnership’ …. But despite Moscow’s push to strengthen ties with Beijing amid a bitter strain in relations with the West, Russia-China trade has shrunk sharply and a slew of ambitious projects have remained largely on paper. Observers attribute the slow progress to Beijing’s hard-nosed […]

Leave a comment China, Economy, EU, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Sanctions, Trade, U.S.-Russian Relations, Ukraine, Xi Jinping

Putin Said to Weigh $11 Billion Rosneft Sale to China, India

June 20, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, India, Oil, Gas, Energy

File Photo of Rosneft and Russian Flags Next to Rosneft Banner

(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Elena Mazneva, Ilya Arkhipov – June 19, 2016) Vladimir Putin is considering selling part of Russia’s corporate crown jewels to China and India as the president struggles to meet spending commitments before his possible re-election bid in less than two years. Russia has been seeking buyers for 19.5 percent of state oil champion Rosneft OJSC and […]

Leave a comment Business, China, Economy, Energy, India, Investment, Oil, Rosneft, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade

RBTH: Russia and China – unfulfilled potential of complementarity

June 9, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC

Asia Map

Despite excellent political ties between Russia and China, bilateral trade stands at just $68 billion. This, obviously, makes both countries look for new sources of growth. A Skolkovo analyst shares her views on how Moscow and Beijing can fulfill their trade potential. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – ANASTASIA BELOSTOTSKAYA, SPECIAL TO RBTH – June 9, 2016) The author […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Far East, Russia, Russian News, Slider

Clinton Says Kremlin ‘Will Celebrate’ If Trump Becomes U.S. Leader

June 6, 2016 JRL Russia List China, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

File Photo of White House with South Lawn and Fountain

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – June 3, 2016) U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russia and China will celebrate if her opponent Donald Trump wins the upcoming U.S. elections. Speaking on national security in San Diego on Thursday, Clinton said that Trump’s isolationist views would weaken the country while playing into the hands of the Kremlin, Time Magazine […]

Leave a comment China, Donald Trump, Rodham Clinton, Russia, Russian News, Slider, U.S. Elections, U.S.-Russian Relations

NEWSLINK Russia Direct: “Here is why Russia’s pivot to the East still hasn’t taken place. Despite a lot of buzz about the Kremlin’s turn to the East in Russian political and media circles, there are some important challenges that would appear to hinder the future development of Russian-Chinese relations.”

June 6, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Newslinks

Asia Map

Leave a comment China, Far East, Newslinks, Russia, Russian News, Slider

Why is Russia’s biggest gas pipeline being built on an uncompetitive basis?

June 2, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Oil, Gas, Energy, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

Gas Flame file photo

Contracts for laying the Power of Siberia pipeline from Russia to China are being dished out mainly without tenders and are often handed to close friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, Russian analysts deny that anything is amiss and insist this is related to Gazprom being afraid of not finishing them on time for its Chinese partner. (Russia Beyond […]

Leave a comment Business, China, Economy, Energy, Far East, Gas, Government, Pipelines, Power of Siberia, Russia, Russian News, Slider

Interfax: Putin’s China visit to give powerful impetus to Russian-Chinese strategic partnership – Lavrov

May 31, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC

China Map

MOSCOW. May 31 (Interfax) – Russia is convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China will help further bolster the two countries’ partnership, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “We are convinced that President Putin’s upcoming visit to China in June will give a powerful impetus to the Russian-Chinese multifaceted strategic partnership and will help further realize its inexhaustible […]

Leave a comment Asia, China, Far East, Putin, Russia, Russian News, Slider

NEWSLINK Russia Today: “Moscow & Beijing target $200bn in trade by 2020 – Lavrov”

May 31, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Newslinks

Asia Map

Leave a comment Asia, China, Economy, Far East, Newslinks, Russia, Russian News, Slider, Trade

Is the U.S. behind Japan’s reluctance to sign a peace treaty with Russia?

May 25, 2016 JRL Russia List China, Far East, Siberia, APEC, Japan, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Japan Map

In the second part of this series on Russia-Japan ties, Rakesh Krishnan Simha looks at how the two countries are finding common cause in many areas, despite being unable to settle the over 70-year old dispute over the Southern Kuril Islands. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – RAKESH KRISHNAN SIMHA, SPECIAL TO RBTH – May 25, 2016) The Russia-Japan […]

Leave a comment China, Far East, Japan, Russia, Russian News, Slider, U.S.-Russian Relations

« 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 »