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China Offers Enhanced Cooperation as Russia Struggles – Bloomberg
China Offers Enhanced Cooperation as Russia Struggles – Bloomberg.
China offered enhanced economic ties with Russia at a regional summit this week as its northern neighbor struggled to contain a currency crisis.
“To help counteract an economic slowdown, China is ready to provide financial aid to develop cooperation,” Premier Li Keqiangsaid at a Dec. 15 gathering in Astana, Kazakhstan. While the remark applied to any of the five other nations represented at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization group, it was directed at Russia, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named as the plans weren’t public.
Any rescue package for Russia would give China the opportunity of exercising the kind of great-power leadership the U.S. has demonstrated for a century — sustaining other economies with its superior financial resources. President Xi Jinping last month called for China to adopt “big-country diplomacy” as he laid out goals for elevating his nation’s status.
“If the Kremlin decides to seek assistance from Beijing, it’s very unlikely for the Xi leadership to turn it down,” said Cheng Yijun, senior researcher with the Institute of Russian, Eastern European, Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. “This would be a perfect opportunity to demonstrate China is a friend indeed, and also its big power status.”
‘Don’t get Russia wrong’: NATO intel warns against misjudging Moscow on Ukraine — RT News
‘Don’t get Russia wrong’: NATO intel warns against misjudging Moscow on Ukraine — RT News.
Russia doesn’t want Ukraine to be split up, NATO intelligence officials say, warning their colleagues against wrongly assessing Moscow’s policy on the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
That’s according to a report in German magazine Der Spiegel written by intelligence officers from several NATO countries. They argue that Moscow is not interested in escalating the situation in Ukraine, and is not going to repeat the scenario of what happened in Crimea.
The officers believe that the Kremlin is merely interested in seeing the reorganization of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics into functioning administrative units within a federalized Ukraine, if those regions can reach an agreement with Kiev.
Russia’s Weapon of Choice: Information Warfare – The Epoch Times
Russia’s Weapon of Choice: Information Warfare – The Epoch Times.
WASHINGTON—With its annexation of Crimea, aggression in the eastern Ukraine, and military and economic threats to NATO nations, the Kremlin has resumed a new kind of Cold War. Regardless of what Vladimir Putin may say, his motives are not benign. The West has reacted with surprise, confusion, paralysis, and mostly inaction.
To understand the Kremlin’s modus operandi and to counter it, the Institute of Modern Russia (IMR), a nonprofit think tank based in New York, sponsored a special report. Authors Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss described the methods the Kremlin uses to confuse its adversaries and exploit the West’s weaknesses.
“The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture, and Money” describes Russia as a Mafia state, whose leaders have no qualms about spreading falsehoods through the media, supplemented, if need be, by covert military threats and force deployment.
Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov can speak in diplomatic voices, while Russia is really engaged in a war with the West that is leaving it bewildered. The democracies of the world have not figured out how to deal with Putin and the challenges he poses to freedom, democracy and the security of nations.
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Russia Conducts Full “Nuclear Triad” Drill, Launches Topol-M ICBM | Zero Hedge
Russia Conducts Full “Nuclear Triad” Drill, Launches Topol-M ICBM | Zero Hedge.
While east Ukraine, aka the Donetsk Republic, was voting over the weekend in what the west pre-emptively classified as another sham vote as its outcome would merely push east Ukraine even closer to the Kremlin, Russia was busy conducting its most comprehensive Nuclear preparedness drill in recent history, one involving the entire “nuclear triad” consisting of strategic bombers; submarines and an the ICBM shown below on Saturday morning.
As reported earlier by the Barents Observer, the silo-based Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Plesetsk in Arkhangelsk Oblast. A few minutes later, the dummy nuclear warhead hits its target on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far eastern corner, the Ministry of Defense reports.
The Ministry, conveniently, adds that the Topol-M missile has an “extremely high accuracy of target destruction.”
This took place after a close encounter on Friday, when Norwegian F-16s were scrambled from Bodø airbase for the second time this week as a group of four Tu-95 strategic bombers were approaching from the northeast, Norway’s TV2 reports. The bombers, flying out over the Barents Sea from Russia’s Kola Peninsula, were accompanied by four Il-78 tankers.
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