With increasing western pressure from western countries like USA and its lackeys it is pushing Russian more towards China... Russia understands it but there is hardly any other options left for it... It is to be remembered that Russia is not USSR and will need support from either China or any big emerging economic power to sustain itself economically.... Russia does not have anything worthwhile to mention except Oil & military hardware...
Add:
1) top quality arable Land; and
2) top quality human resource; and
3) trade routes that Far East and CAR and Europe need; and
4) Neeeuuuuuukkkkkkkeeeeesssss
5) Nearly zero debt and dependency on foreigners.
I guess enough for 14.6 crore people (contrast that to 12.4 crore for Japan)
You just have to see their economy and society working. They have been sanctioned for over 100 years by now, in one form or the other.
Chinese have only just started. A guy in shanty town with more money does not mean a qualitatively better man. Takes a culture to make a man.
US recently tried to sanction Russian Oil by manipulating true international transactional prices. Result:
1) India and China gained massively. Not the Western Europeans or Americans,
2) Saudis (US allies) decided to encash the once in a lifetime opportunity to kill US shale industry,
3) US enconomy had 500 billion USD in junk bond financing to the Shale industry. So with the shale industry went down the junk bonds,
4) Saudis already had the money to keep financing ISIS. US could not even get Assad out despite that help from Saudis. Ultimately US decided to dump Saudis alongwith their ISIS creations. And you know what it means, for US, in future, to dump the likes of SA & ISIS
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5) Iran got out of the doghouse with common support, active and passive from the whole of Asia. With no bloody way of ensuring that the Iranians do not have nukes. Iranians are more than capable of making nukes without anybodies help. Not even Russian help is required, much less that of others,
6) The threats to China are only threatening to boomerang on the ^DJI.
Man some year the last one was.