The deepening cooperation between China and Russia was facilitated by Ukraine, and without this Russia-Ukraine war, it would be impossible for Russia to put down its body and beg us.
Children make choices, adults want all. The United States once accused us that the West and Russia must choose one or the other. We cannot deepen cooperation with Russia while cooperating with the West. The West does not understand that China and Russia are each other's largest neighbors, and it is impossible not to get in touch.
Sino-Russian cooperation is based on non-alignment, non-confrontation and non-targeting of third countries. Before his current visit to China, Putin had said that he would give China a big gift, and sure enough, Putin did not break his promise, and we can see from the joint statement issued jointly that today we are only talking about the joint development of the Black Blind Island.
The Sino-Russian joint statement stated that the two sides will jointly develop the Black Blind Island (Great Ussuri Island) in accordance with the principles of good-neighborliness, friendship and respect for sovereignty, and will also speed up consultations on the navigation of Chinese and Russian ships in the waters around the Black Blind Island. It is widely believed that Russia is determined to look east in the face of widespread sanctions. The island belongs to Fuyuan City, Heilongjiang Province, and is the easternmost part of Chinese territory, and the first rays of sunlight in the morning rise from the Black Blind Island. In the middle of the confluence of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, on the other side of the river is Khabarovsk (Boli) in Russia.
Black Blind Island, also known as Fuyuan Delta, is composed of three island systems, namely Yinlong Island, Black Blind Island and Mingyue Island, which are divided by the Heilongjiang River, the Ussuri River and their water systems, and their affiliated islands. The island is 58.8 kilometers long, 14 kilometers wide at its widest point, and has a total area of 335 square kilometers, which is about the size of Gaza. The Black Blind Island represents the humiliation and suffering of modern China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, after many negotiations with the Soviet Union, it was not until 2004, when Putin visited China, that half of the Black Blind Island (171 square kilometers) was recovered.
After acquiring half of the Black Blind Island, the Chinese side quickly stationed border guards and carried out development work, and in 2012 the Shangdao Bridge was built on the Chinese side, followed by the Shangdao Bridge on the Russian side. Since the Russian side has been looking to the west and does not pay much attention to the territory in the east, the Russian side of the black blind man is relatively desolate.
Black Blind Island is very rich in natural resources, with a large number of rare wild animals and plants, and is a wetland nature reserve. The Russian high-level has repeatedly declared to the outside world that the Black Blind Island will become an important port for Sino-Russian trade, and as the people of the two countries on the border become closer to each other, it has also attracted great attention from the West.
Since the outbreak of the Crimean crisis and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia's westward look has been interrupted, and China and Russia have a long history of cooperation in the energy field, and in 2023, Russia surpassed Saudi Arabia to become China's largest oil importer, and its stable energy supply is essential for China's development. The cooperation on the Black Blind Island will undoubtedly enable the two countries to make more effective use of resources and complement each other's advantages.