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By Pepe Escobar.
It will take ages to unpack the silos of information inbuilt in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, coupled with the – armored - train-keeps-a-rollin’ conducted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un straddling every nook and cranny of Primorsky Krai.
The key themes...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The volume of trade between Russia and China may exceed $200 billion by the end of this year, the Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov told reporters in Beijing.
The Russian delegation led by Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov is on a working...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The emphasis on the use of the yuan in bilateral settlements with China is inevitable, but the share of the ruble in them is also growing, the Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov told reporters in Beijing.
According to him, in bilateral agreements with China...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The US president Joe Biden hopes to meet the presidents of the Central Asian states on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on either 19 or 20 September. This will be the first time that negotiations have been held at the level of heads of state, as opposed to foreign ministe...
By Rhod Mackenzie
At the VIII Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) held in Vladivostok on 10-13 September, 373 agreements worth 3.8 trillion roubles were signed. The largest were for projects in the Amur region, Trans-Baikal, the Khabarovsk Territory and Primorye. In addition to Russia's friends, there we...
By Rhod Mackenzie
US measures to restrict chip exports to China violate market rules and will lead to the fragmentation of the global semiconductor market, said Chinese commerce ministry spokesman He Yadong.
In early September, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US would be as strict...
