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Is A Russia-China Economic Alliance On The Horizon?
Forbes ^ | 11/7/2016 | Sara Hsu

Posted on 11/07/2016 6:01:57 AM PST by EBH

As Russia continues to contend with sanctions from the United States and European Union after annexing Crimea in 2014, it has cast its eye on a new ally: China.

The two countries are already aligning themselves for security purposes, a prime example being their position against the U.S. missile shield deployment plans in South Korea. Both China and Russia have stated that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system situated in South Korea to contain North Korea harms their relations with the U.S.

Combine this with China’s potentially shaky relations with America (depending on the results of the election), and a stronger economic alliance between China and Russia may be on the horizon.

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1 posted on 11/07/2016 6:01:57 AM PST by EBH
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To: EBH

Russia is not a good market because the people are poor. What’s more, they are alcoholic and lazy. They lack the initiative to work. Had they done so they would be the economic miracle that China now is


2 posted on 11/07/2016 6:05:05 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hilary is an Ameriphobe)
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To: EBH

China is already advising Hillary


3 posted on 11/07/2016 7:20:46 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

They are also already “warning” Trump


4 posted on 11/07/2016 7:25:24 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: EBH

EVERY country has an economic alliance with China...
Because China has all the cash!


5 posted on 11/07/2016 7:27:31 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: mrsmith

Yes, yes they do. Which makes an economic alliance between them and cash poor Russia worrisome. Add in they both agree in regards to Syria and people saying that Russia is too poor to really wage a war fail to recognize the proxy


6 posted on 11/07/2016 7:32:16 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: EBH; All

Trump’s VP, Mike Pence, on Hillary, Obama, Russia, Syria and the Ukraine (from the 10/5 VP debate)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3484603/posts


7 posted on 11/07/2016 8:07:28 AM PST by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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Check out the section of my link above regarding the increasing miltary alliance between Russia and China. It began to get serious about the time of Bill Clinton’s ChinaGate scandal.


8 posted on 11/08/2016 6:18:17 AM PST by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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