How do they collect, all Russian funds have already been frozen so what's the difference? And it's well known that Europeans prefer buying on the spot market.
Discussing long term impacts of Ukraine crisis
- Thread starter sndef888
- Start date
BRI has failed now. From my extensive shopping experience, much of EUR-CHN trade actually went through warehouses in Russia. You can imagine how that might be a problem at this point.
Majority of European BRI should be deleted (except Hungary, Serbia, a bit in Poland etc).
Direct all that money to Central Asia asap. Russia wont be against that as it also needs money now. So, better to build up the backyard in order to get developed even more and this will benefit China and Russia quickly
This only works if Russians vote liberal but... #2 party is Communist Party of Russia and #3 are the nationalist socialists of A Just Russia. So post Putin is Russia as socialist again one way or another.
#4 aren't the liberals either lol, they're the monarchists.
When monarchy has more public support than liberalism... No chance for EU.
supercat
Major
I think it's a little bit too early to tell. The NATO bombed Serbia for more than 70 days before forcing it to withdraw from Kosovo. No matter how much hardship the Russians have to face this time, it won't be as bad as the disintegration of the USSR and the "Shock Therapy", when millions of Russian men died prematurely, which dragged down Russia's male life expectancy by about 10 years.
Yea, damn. BRI in Europe was a international relations coup for China. Oh well, you win some you lose some.
Investment in Greece can keep running, too. But, yeah, it's a setback for BRI in east Europe. The railway links from China to Europe are now also severed.
I am wondering how much concessions Putin will need to make to Xi after the dust settles down.
Russia has dragged China through a mess of its own doing. I hope Xi sends a large payment demand to Putin for causing all that mess to China. He directly affected China's long term strategies.
That's a blow for its diplomacy and big headache on how to adjust now
Last edited:
Now in retrospect it all makes sense why:
Back in 2018 when AT&T and Verizon signed deals with Huawei to bring their smartphones to US market the US gov moved in to stop it
Or when UK initially accepted Huawei 5G contract, Trump called Boris and threatened him at basically knifepoint to renege and cancel
This decoupling had been in the works for years.... the USG already planned it out but for Opsec couldnt share the roadmap or timeline...
I disagree, the crux of BRI was to recycle USD from Chinese trade into other hard assets and not back into USD treasuries to fund washingtons war machine, with the war, chinas just gained a captive market of the Eurasian union without western competitors.
If Washington succeeded in killing BRI you would have seen more control over inflation but that’s not what we’re seeing now with stagflation and the US trying to instigate wars to force ppl to put money into USD