{"id":178943,"date":"2018-11-11T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T09:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178943"},"modified":"2018-11-15T05:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T05:32:17","slug":"we-feel-comfortable-back-to-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178943","title":{"rendered":"‘We Feel Comfortable Back-to-Back’"},"content":{"rendered":"

China and Russia Better Friends Than at Any Time in 400 Years of Contact<\/h2>\n

Tyler Durden — via Russia Insider Nov 11, 2018<\/a><\/h1>\n

\"America-Eagle-versus-China-Dragon-and-Russia-Bear-1_0_0_0\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no sense of threat from Russia. We feel comfortable back-to-back.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>A new deep dive by\u00a0Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0examining the growing closeness of Russia and China as both face down increased U.S. pressures and sanctions contains some deeply revealing quotes by analysts as well as a high official\u00a0in the Chinese communist government reacting to Trump’s trade war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia and China, Bloomberg begins, are currently\u00a0“as close as at any time in their 400 years of shared history.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is due to a perhaps “forced” and largely externally driven developing reconfiguration of the Eastern hemisphere’s superpowers\u00a0\u2014\u00a0for most of their history longtime rivals\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which involves, as\u00a0Bloomberg summarizes<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese investment and energy purchases make it easier for Russia to resist economic pressure over Ukraine; Russian sales of oil, missile defense systems, and jets are changing U.S. calculations in the Pacific by\u00a0raising the potential cost of any future showdown with China<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fu Ying, the chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress, said while confirming the reality that\u00a0China and Russia now find\u00a0themselves in the same trenches:\u00a0\u201cI just hope that if some people in the U.S. insist on dragging us down the hill into Thucydides\u2019 trap, China will be smart enough not to follow.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed to step back and review the breadth of Russia-China cooperation over the past couple years alone\u00a0reveals the full potential “cost” of a US-China conflict<\/strong>, given the ways Russia could easily be pulled in. Fu Ying articulated the increasingly common view from Beijing, that\u00a0\u201cThere is no sense of threat from Russia” and that\u00a0“We feel comfortable back-to-back.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And participants in a\u00a0recent study<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0by the\u00a0National Bureau of Asian Research<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a Seattle-based think tank, actually agree. They were asked whether American policy was at fault for pushing China and Russia into closer cooperation, and alarmingly, as Bloomberg notes:\u00a0“Some among the 100-plus participants called for Washington to prepare for the worst-case scenario the realignment implies:\u00a0a two-front war<\/strong>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s but a partial list of the way Sino-Russian relations have been transformed in recent years:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n