Beijing, Moscow enhance cooperation in S. China Sea

[Hindustani78]

Updated: July 28, 2015 02:29 IST
Beijing, Moscow enhance cooperation in S. China Sea - The Hindu

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (left)with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Ufa, Russia, earlier in the month.

U.S. is likely to beef up the aerial component of the U.S. Pacific Command

Military tensions in the Pacific are on the rise as the United States cements its China oriented “Asia Pivot” amid visible signs of naval collaboration between Beijing and Moscow.

Beijing is closely monitoring Washington’s decision to step up aerial monitoring and attack capability in the Pacific as part of a five-year plan.Last week, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, disclosed in a five-page “navigation plan” that Washington would beef up the aerial component of the U.S. Pacific Command.

Aerial command posts
He revealed Pentagon’s intent to deploy the latest E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes-new aerial command posts, which would be central to surveillance network in the skies.The strengthening of the “Asia Pivot” — a “containment” doctrine targeting China — has escalated tensions over competing sovereignty claims over islands in the South China Sea.

The Chinese, sensing deviation from its previous hands-off stance, are especially concerned about a recent surge in U.S. activism in the South China Sea.

Last Monday, the Chinese defence ministry slammed the surveillance mission undertaken by U.S. Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Scott Swift, who, for seven hours, flew on a reconnaissance mission aboard a P-8A plane in the South China Sea.

Philippines a close U.S. ally, and a country which has a dispute with China in the South China Sea, welcomed Admiral Swift’s flight, calling it a demonstration of Washington’s political will to stand by its allies who have territorial disputes with China. Apart from the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei and have claims over islands in the South China Sea.

The Russians, already allied with China in game-changing strategic projects in Eurasia, have now become unambiguous in accusing Washington of pursuing a “containment” policy towards Russia and China.

“We are concerned by U.S. policies in the region, especially since every day it becomes increasingly focused on a systemic containment of Russia and China, “Russian Deputy-Defence Minister Anatoly Antonov told Russia Today.

He also announced that Russia planned to join its Asia-pacific allies in May next year, in counter-terrorism naval exercises in the South China Sea. The Russians have also announced beefing up its military presence in Kuril islands, heightening the dispute in the area with Japan, a top U.S. ally in the Pacific.

 

[Nan Yang]

He he he. South China sea is getting very crowded

 

[TaiShang]

He he he. South China sea is getting very crowded

Welcome our Russian partners. The more, the merrier. Together, we will make sure that freedom of navigation is upheld.

 

[xunzi]

Russia is welcome to port and refuel at our new facilities in South China Sea once we completed it. They don't have to rely on Cam Ranh port anymore to monitor the US network in the Pacific.

 

[biendong]

Russia has enough things to do with NATO in Europa, kids.

 

[dichoi]

Russia anti-sub warship will visit Danang Vietnam.

Tàu chống ngầm của Nga thăm Đà Nẵng - VnExpress

 

[PLANZubr]

Not only all Viet's neighbors hate Viet.

Not only all of ASEAN hate Viet.

Now Russians hate Viet too!

 

[Namin]

Two neighboring super powers cooperate. it's the funniest thing in the world. Russia is really wrong to help china now. When China becomes strong , China will definitely ask back millions of km square of area they lost to Russia.
Vietnam and China have disputes only on some tiny uninhabited islands but Russia captured from China millions of km square of area. If Russia think China already forget those lands, they are really fools.
Remember that in Qing Dynasty, China's area is nearly 14 millions km square, now lower than 10 millions, where those land has gone?

 

[Rechoice]

Not only all Viet's neighbors hate Viet.

Not only all of ASEAN hate Viet.

Now Russians hate Viet too!

Russia can't forget that China attacked on Russia border 1969 to showed off China's intention to join with USA in cold war.

 

[TaiShang]

Two neighboring super powers cooperate. it's the funniest thing in the world. Russia is really wrong to help china now. When China becomes strong , China will definitely ask back millions of km square of area they lost to Russia.
Vietnam and China have disputes only on some tiny uninhabited islands but Russia captured from China millions of km square of area. If Russia think China already forget those lands, they are really fools.
Remember that in Qing Dynasty, China's area is nearly 14 millions km square, now lower than 10 millions, where those land has gone?

100,000-cow-power dairy farm in China to feed Russian market
Updated: 2015-07-09 11:14

They say that money is the mother's milk of politics. In this case, it's just the milk.

A 100,000-cow dairy farm is being constructed in Northeast China to supply the Russian market with milk and cheese, in what can be construed as agricultural geopolitics.

Russia has extended an import ban of most agricultural products from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Norway until August 2016, in retaliation for recently renewed Western economic sanctions over Russia's military moves in Ukraine and Crimea.

The new dairy site is in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang province, Zhang Chuntszyao, chairman of the Association of Applied Economics of Heilongjiang province told Interfax on Monday.

Russia's ban was originally scheduled to expire in August, but was extended in late June in response to the renewal of Western sanctionsthrough January.

It will be the world's largest dairy farm and will be funded with 1 billion yuan ($161 million) from Russian and Chinese investors. China's Zhongding Dairy Farming and Russia's Severny Bur will work together on the project.

China already is home to the world's largest dairy operation, a 40,000-cow unit of the Maanshan, Anhui province-based China Modern Dairy Holdings Ltd, which operates 24 farms throughout the mainland.

The largest US dairy farm is in Fair Oaks, Indiana, where 30,000 cows ply their trade.

Earlier this month, China's Huae Sinban Co signed an agreement to lease 115,000 hectares (284,000 acres) in Russia's Transbaikal region for feedstock, according to state-run Russia Today. The company is expected to invest about $450 million in the project over the next half century.Huae Sinban plans to lease up to 200,000 hectares in Russia if the first stage of the project from 2015-2018 works out.

Mansel Raymond, chairman of the Milk Working Party Copa-Cogeca, an organization representing European agricultural groups, said the ban and the Sino-Russian dairy venture are a concern for EU dairy farmers.

"The scale of Chinese investment in dairy production is vast," Raymond told UK-based Farmers Weekly. "I wonder now whether we will ever get the Russian milk market back.

"Building a 100,000-cow dairy farm is simply mind-boggling. If the project goes ahead and the 100,000 head represents milking cows, this unit alone could produce 800 million liters a year (about 200 million gallons).

"In that case, it would equate to 100,000 tons of cheese – and that would mean this unit alone could produce about 30 percent of our previous exports to Russia," Raymond added.

In August 2014, when the Russian agricultural-product sanctions were first imposed, they were estimated to affect about one-tenth of Russia's $43 billion in yearly food imports, straining both foreign suppliers and Russian consumers, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"The food embargo by Russia that began in August of 2014 impacts approximately $1 billion of the $1.4 billion of ag and food products that the US sold to Russia," David Salmonsen, senior director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said in an e-mail to China Daily. "Those most impacted are Russian consumers and European farmers who had a large share of food exports to Russia."

EU countries were shipping about $2.7 billion in produce a year to Russia, and the embargo's impact will be felt unevenly among the 28 countries in the EU, analysts said.

"For the larger EU economies - Germany included - the costs are bearable. For some of the smaller EU economies, the pain will be more acute," the Times reported, quoting RBS Capital.