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This is too indirect for me to understand. What does the US effort to supply war materiel to the KMT have to do with Russia's subordination to China today? What does the Soviet refusal to help the allied war effort in the Pacific theater in WWII have to do with Russia's subordination to China...

I have also professed my admiration for Xi, and I think he's off to a great start with his anti-corruption campaign. Nothing will ensure China's prosperity more than strong, clean institutions, so he is right to prioritize that area. I also have a deep respect and admiration for Li Keqiang...

I'm all for that. Even the US has CFIUS reviews for foreign acquisitions of US assets to make sure that strategically significant assets remain in the hands of friendly powers. If China needs to restrict access for national security reasons, you will find no objections from me. Beyond...

It was Russia that chose to make NATO's expansion a mutually exclusive choice with warming relations, not us. If Russia has not objected (since it has no legitimate right to determine the security arrangements of other sovereign powers), we would have had quite warm relations. I'm surprised...

@Nihonjin1051 @Chinese-Dragon @Edison Chen Staggering that the value of competition is being questioned in this day and age. I wonder when the detractors will call for China to close its borders to imports, since competition is so destructive.

China doesn't need Russia in the UNSC, as it has its own veto. SCO is China's entity, not Russia's. BRICS does not exist as a meaningful entity other than a label for a specific grouping of countries (it's really China alone, plus the BRIS). It's fine for China to militarily cooperate with...

Precisely. China and Russia are not equal, not in demographics, not in economics, not militarily. Russia has more nukes, more energy, and more land, but the first will eventually be solved by China's military, the second has been solved by China's clever purchasing of energy from multiple...

Easy enough. Numbers are for 2013, and the gap is only growing. Population China: 1,357m Russia: 143.5m Ratio: 9.45x GDP China: $9.2tn Russia: $2.1tn Ratio: 4.38x Defense Spending (IISS) China: $112.2bn Russia: $68.2bn Ratio: 1.64x We've established that Russia is an economic, demographic...

Excuse the semi-essay below, but you provided a great topic for me to address. I respect your perspective on this, but as you say, we remain in disagreement. We are often castigated by others for this, but the US truly believes itself to be an "exceptional nation," not beholden to the old ways...

Generally speaking, I agree with you, but democracy in a friend or ally is very important to the US. We have autocratic allies. But please consider the opposite side of the equation: if China ever implements democracy, it is possible that we will see yet another realignment in the world, where...

Russia is now subordinate to China, and becoming less relevant every day. Its main value is its natural resources, which it must sell to sustain itself, but otherwise, China exceeds Russia in almost every way. I must agree with @xyxmt that India will become another pole at some point in the...

Yes, please. If there is a downside to enabling that feature, perhaps you can re-enable it temporarily so I can manually bookmark in my browser all of the posts I bookmarked using PDF's functionality. Thanks for your consideration.

The yen depreciation is unlikely to help Japan or make its products cheaper: Japan’s record trade deficit raises fresh DOUBTS about ABENOMICS ! | Page 5 What Japan needs are demand-side solutions, i.e. tax cuts instead of the tax increases it's been pursuing, and/or addressing its demographic...

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/11/07/roubles-slide-revives-memories-of-dark-days-of-1998-and-2008/ Rouble’s slide revives memories of dark days of 1998 and 2008 Jonathan Wheatley Author alerts | Nov 07 10:01 Source: Thomson Reuters The Russian rouble dived deeper to new lows on...

Russia can take comfort in that its peer, Nigeria, is in the same boat. --- http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/11/07/2035652/bearwhales-everywhere/ BearWhales everywhere Izabella Kaminska Author alerts | Nov 07 11:53 BearWhale n. /bâr-weil/ 1. A large mythical creature known to operate in FX...

The reason why foreign governments and corporations raise debt denominated in the USD is because our capital markets are the most developed and sophisticated in the world, which makes raising debt on them (and connecting with the world's largest investors) easier, which consequently means debt...

I am re-evaluating and significantly reducing the level and scope of posts I make on PDF. No more 10 posts per day; I would rather concentrate on analysis than simple news updates. Consequently, my posts/articles will be far less frequent, and more high-level like the one below. I appreciate...

I am not one to trash talk, but in this case, I couldn't resist. Interesting times ahead for Russia. @senheiser --- http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/11/06/2033162/fending-off-the-great-russian-bearwhale/ Fending off the great Russian BearWhale Izabella Kaminska Author alerts | Nov 06 12:55...

I suspect that our friend is confusing populism, which can come either from the left or the right, with progressivism, which is exclusively leftist. Yomiuri can be populist at times, but it has almost never been progressive. In any case, we are in agreement. Yomiuri and the LDP are...