RUSSIAN "SURRENDER TALKS" PROGRESSING WELL IN MOSCOW

From Slav to slave 

Russian surrender talks in Moscow appear to be going well, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping reaching widespread agreement on total Russian subservience to Chinese power. 

As reported by the Financial Times: 

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will place their growing economic ties at the heart of talks in the Kremlin on Tuesday, highlighting Moscow’s dependence on Beijing after its economy was largely severed from the west.

The Russian president hailed China’s economic model as “much more effective” than that of other countries, a recognition of the lifeline Beijing has extended since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year — with bilateral trade reaching a record $190bn in 2022.

Conventionally, people see Russia involved in a struggle with Ukraine and the West, following the 2022 invasion of the Ukraine by Russian forces that were then badly mauled. However, the real struggle has been between a much weakened Russia and its giant economic neighbour China, which is set on reducing Russia to a pathetic economic colony and source of cheap raw materials.

Back to the FT:

“The sanctions have exacerbated the already asymmetrical relationship between Russia and China,” said Maria Shagina, a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “It’s hard to hide the fact that Russia is now a junior partner.” [...]

The most hotly anticipated topic for discussion on Tuesday is the planned Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, which would give Russia a vital new way to reroute exports from reserves no longer being sent to Europe.

“The logic of events dictates that we fully become a Chinese resource colony,” [Shagina] said. “Our servers will be from Huawei. We will be China’s major suppliers of everything. They will get gas from Power of Siberia. By the end of 2023 the yuan [renminbi] will be our main trade currency.”

This lop-sided relationship of economic dominance will inevitably lead to large area of Siberia being ceded by Russia outright.

In recent days there have been reports of China insisting on using Chinese names for Russian lands and cities that were once under the control of the Chinese Qing Dynasty (1636-1912). As reported by the Asia Times:

The Ministry of Natural Resources on February 14 published a new version of its world map – directing a return to using the Chinese names of eight cities and areas occupied by the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [...]

Under Beijing’s new directive, Vladivostok once again is called Haishenwai (meaning Sea Cucumber Bay) while Sakhalin Island is called Kuyedao. The Stanovoy Range is back to being called the Outer Xing’an Range in Chinese.