if you are going to post articles that annoy people, can you at least put it behind paywall, so people can read it?
IIRC, Chinese customers shifted to Chilean wine.
anyway, this is your usual Western "China is making Russia a junior partner" article, but quite a few things in there that has good implications for the Chinese economy
I think the implication here is that Chinese suppliers that are not very big will have another major customer to sell their product and improve their product until they get good enough to undercut Western stuff. Russian companies may have taken some time to get used to Chinese products, but they will only import more Chinese equipments over time to replace Western ones. And once that happens, Russian economy/market will be fully functional. And China can tell rest of the world that you can live without the West. I have everything you need.
When you show the world that they don't need the West. That's a huge seismic shift in power.
In the context of China/Russia, the two countries are likely to get continually integrated economically as I discussed before. I think China will account for 50% of Russia's trade eventually and will also massively ramp up its trade with rest of EEAU. All import export markets as Western countries increasingly look to put up protectionist measures.
