Why China won't rush to help Russia circumvent Western sanctions
The worsening crisis in relations between China and the United States is unlikely to lead to a sharp intensification of economic cooperation between Beijing and Moscow.
Political scientist Alexei Maslov stated this at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, as long as Chinese companies are focused on Western markets and are not subject to American sanctions, there is no point in expecting a serious breakthrough in economic relations between Russia and China.
“What will we see? We will most likely see an expansion of negotiations on military-technical cooperation. Surely, Russia and China will jointly shape the agenda in BRICS and the SCO, including the military or defense-military agenda.
Obviously, Russia and China will discuss questions about which countries are now on the side of the United States. Both Japan and South Korea are included in this negative list.
But there is no reason to expect that there will be a sharp expansion of Russian-Chinese trade in new categories of goods or a sharp increase in educational cooperation, because China will keep its gates open to the last.
And the review will begin not when Pelosi visited Taiwan, but when Chinese companies are blocked in American and Western markets in general, that is, when only a funnel called Russia and other states of the macroeconomic region close to China remain. Then, of course, there will be a review of relations,” Maslov said.
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