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Updated October 7, 2025
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Featured October 5, 2024

China Needs A Strong Russia, While Russia Needs A Stable China – Russian Foreign Minister

The Russia-China relationship has been the focus of ongoing conjecture in the West, much of it referring to how Beijing will eventually outmanoeuvre Moscow and subsume Russia either via land grabs or financial coercion. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, has weighed in on the debate by stating, somewhat enigmatically, that “Our friendly and good-neighbourly relations […]

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Featured October 3, 2024

New Far East Container Port At Posyet To Service The Primorsky International Transport Corridor  

A new terminal for transhipment of various cargoes, including containers and grain, will be built in the port of Posyet in Primorsky Krai. Russia’s VTB bank are to finance the project, with a total investment of about ₽10 billion (US$106 million). The corresponding agreement was signed during the recent Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. VTB […]

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October 2, 2024

Russia, China Discuss Mineral Drilling Project In Antarctica

It doesn’t get much further into the Global South than Antarctica, and Russia and China are in talks over joint drilling of the Gamburtsev Mountain Range in the middle of the continent, the Russian Federal Agency for Mineral Resources (Rosnedra) has stated. Last month, the Chinese cities of Beijing and Changchun hosted international conferences on […]

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October 1, 2024

Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan Discuss Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction 

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan are full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Afghanistan is an observer country. Afghan representatives did not attend the meeting having been denied US Visas because some members of the government are on […]

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September 24, 2024

Russia Imports Chinese Diamonds To Beat Financial Sanctions

Money Can’t Buy Me Love, but Diamonds Are Forever Russia has imported a significant quantity of diamonds from China for the first time, with 35,000 carats of the gems, worth more than US$12 million, imported last month, based on Chinese customs data. Both countries had stated that barter could be used to settle trade transactions […]

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September 19, 2024

New Chinese Auto Brand To Enter Russian Market

China’s Soueast automobile brand is planning to enter the Russian market at the end of this year, the company has stated. “Soueast will offer Russian consumers two models, the flagship crossover, Soueast S09, in the D-SUV segment, and the intelligent urban crossover, Soueast S07, in the C-SUV segment” the company said. Full technical specifications and […]

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September 17, 2024

Russia Wants To Reel In China’s Growing Fish Consumer Market

Russian fish exporters need to actively develop new niche markets through marketing tools, according to German Zverev, President of the All-Russian Association of Fishermen. This will be of interest to Russian sales and marketing businesses with China market capabilities. According to Zverev, China is currently the second largest global importer of fish products after the […]

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September 12, 2024

Russia Begins Paying China Traders In Hong Kong Using Couriered Gold

Some Russian businesses have begun using gold to pay Chinese suppliers to get around US sanctions and threats of sanctions against Chinese banks affecting Russia-China bank transfers. The alternative solution means that gold is purchased in Russia, transported by private courier to Hong Kong, where it is sold, and the cash is deposited into the […]

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