2023年11月4日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
With Russia, China is Big Brother
When Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin at the Belt and Road summit in Beijing on October 18, the photograph showed a warm handshake and broad smiles. But the two men are anything but equals.
Russia's economy is deteriorating because of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. According to Forbes magazine, the war has cost Russia US$167 billion, with no economic return. Last week the British Ministry of Defence put the number of Russian dead and seriously injured at 150,00-190,000. That means the government has to pay billions of roubles to the families of the dead and wounded soldiers, as promised in their contracts. In addition, to avoid the draft, 800,000 Russians have fled abroad, many of them the country's best educated and most highly qualified people. ...
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