{"id":3319,"date":"2014-12-20T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:59:35","slug":"china-offers-enhanced-cooperation-as-russia-struggles-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"China Offers Enhanced Cooperation as Russia Struggles – Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

China Offers Enhanced Cooperation as Russia Struggles – Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

China<\/a>\u00a0offered enhanced economic ties with\u00a0Russia<\/a>\u00a0at a regional summit this week as its northern neighbor struggled to contain a currency crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo help counteract an economic slowdown, China is ready to provide financial aid to develop cooperation,\u201d Premier\u00a0Li Keqiang<\/a>said at a Dec. 15 gathering in Astana,\u00a0Kazakhstan<\/a>. 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\u2019t public.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cbig-country diplomacy\u201d as he laid out goals for elevating his nation\u2019s status.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Kremlin decides to seek assistance from Beijing, it\u2019s very unlikely for the Xi leadership to turn it down,\u201d said Cheng Yijun, senior researcher with the Institute of Russian, Eastern European, Central Asian Studies at the\u00a0Chinese Academy of Social Sciences<\/a>\u00a0in Beijing. \u201cThis would be a perfect opportunity to demonstrate China is a friend indeed, and also its big power status.\u201d<\/p>\n

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China Offers Enhanced Cooperation as Russia Struggles – Bloomberg. China\u00a0offered enhanced economic ties with\u00a0Russia\u00a0at a regional summit this week as its northern neighbor struggled to contain a currency crisis. \u201cTo help counteract an economic slowdown, China is ready to provide financial aid to develop cooperation,\u201d Premier\u00a0Li Keqiangsaid at a Dec. 15 gathering in Astana,\u00a0Kazakhstan. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2045,130,244,471,542,694],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-economics-2","tag-kremlin","tag-moscow","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}