On April 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly stated at the congress of the Russian Union of Industry and Entrepreneurs that he would come to China in May.
Although Russian officials have not disclosed the specific time of Putin's visit to China, considering the current situation facing Russia and the fact that Putin has not revealed plans for more foreign visits, China is likely to be the first country Putin will visit after his re-election.
In the new term, Putin will visit China, firstly, to reassure Russia's domestic industrial entrepreneurs, and secondly, to reassure himself. Now that China has just sent away Yellen and Blinken, the Americans will inevitably use this meeting to put pressure on China to stop economic cooperation with Russia. Oh yes, in the words of Blinken and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, the relationship between China and Russia is not called economic cooperation, it is called Chinese team Russian aid.
This incident has made Russia very nervous, especially at the moment when the United States has just passed the aid bill to Ukraine. Therefore, Putin's visit to Beijing is to confirm whether China has compromised them under pressure from the United States and the West.
How to say it, in fact, Russia's attitude did drift a little bit when it had an advantage on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine before, especially the behavior of the Republican Party of the United States sending Tucker Carlson to Russia to test Putin's tone, which made him feel that the division within the United States has reached the point of irreparability, and it is impossible for the United States to reach a reunification and agree to further aid Ukraine.
However, Putin has been too drifting recently, thinking that the general trend of the world is in his own hands, so when facing the passage of the US aid bill to Ukraine, he eased his hands and feet a little, for fear that he would be too drifting before, which would cause China to be dissatisfied.
In fact, on this issue, Putin should not be worried. After all, China is still very clear, China has always understood very well that the biggest cancer in the world today is the United States, and if the United States does not fall, China will have no chance of development, and the Americans have always regarded China and Russia as opponents that must be strangled, and there is no so-called détente, and any détente is just a strategic buffer for the sake of accumulating strength.
So even if the Russians still had illusions about the United States, the Chinese side is ready to abandon the illusions and prepare for the struggle.
The United States wants to cut off ties between China and Russia, which is nothing more than trying to make us cut off trade with Russia and join the army of sanctions against Russia. In the past, the mainland would conduct normal economic and trade exchanges with Russia, but now we will continue to carry out further economic and trade exchanges with Russia.
According to the records of the General Administration of Customs of the mainland, in 2023, the mainland will import 107 million tons of crude oil from Russia, accounting for 19% of our total crude oil imports for the whole year, and the cost of imports from Russia will account for 30% of the mainland's imports.
Recently, the overseas assets of oligarchs linked to the United States in Russia have been confiscated, and these oligarchs have also stopped interfering with the construction of the Sino-Russian Siberian high-speed railway and the Siberian gas pipeline. Before that, in order to protect their assets in the United States, they frequently influenced the Russian government and put pressure on the project, which made it impossible to carry it out. Once these two projects are completed, the natural gas trade and other trade projects between China and Russia will be further expanded.
Once China cuts off Russia's economic and trade exchanges, who will fill the energy gap that we lack, who will compensate for the import premium? Who will be responsible for the economic losses caused?
After all, since the time of Peter the Great, the Slavs have always dreamed of integrating into Europe, but Europe has always regarded the Slavs as Orientals, and occasionally said that they were willing to take them, but that would be a fool. But China has never believed the bullshitty of the Americans.
If the United States wants to sit down and talk to China, then we can talk. But now the Americans want to threaten, intimidate China, and order China to weaken itself, then I can only say that China will not give the Americans a good face.
Recently, the Russian side has also seen the Americans' routine. Some time ago, the United States began to discuss the transfer of their frozen Russian overseas assets to Ukraine, and in general, with this open discussion means that it is only a matter of time before it is passed. Therefore, the Russian oligarchs and the capitulation faction within the Russian government also saw the faces of the Americans, and finally realized that it was not yet the time for a showdown with China, and they had floated a little too early, so they hurried to China to strengthen ties with China.
Russians are just ambitious, and not stupid. At this stage, the biggest opponent of China and Russia is the United States, and if the United States does not fall, it will not benefit either China or Russia.