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23 Nov 2005 08:28:45 AM |
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Two-timing the Chinese |
Two-timing the Chinese
Simon Tisdall
Wednesday November 23, 2005
The Guardian
Vladimir Putin makes an unlikely swinger. Until now, Russia's president
has been assiduously courting China. He sells Beijing oil and weaponry.
Bilateral trade will be worth about =A315bn this year. Cold war border
disputes have been settled. The two countries recently held
unprecedented joint military exercises. And they often act together at
the UN on issues such as Iran and Sudan.
Yet risking accusations of infidelity from Beijing, Mr Putin has spent
the past three days in Japan, China's old enemy and regional rival and
a country with which Russia is technically still at war. He promised to
build a pipeline linking Japan to Siberia's oil. He encouraged further
investment in Russia. And he was conciliatory over the hot-button issue
of the Kurile islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories,
seized by the Soviet Union in 1945 and which Tokyo wants returned.
China / Russia
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/271500c05c1bc8b1
China
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/d3294ecc38a6a57d
Russia
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/cd3eb1840b43f444
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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