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Russia hopes to restore trade with China during the [Aug. 31 / Sept. 01] Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, where Putin will meet with Xi — Reuters

Trade between Russia and China rose to record levels as the war in Ukraine left Moscow isolated. But now it is falling, and Putin is trying to reverse this trend in preparation for the summit with President Xi Jinping.

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“China does not behave like an ally. Sometimes China lets us down and stops payments, sometimes it takes advantage of the situation, sometimes it’s outright robbery; there is nothing allied about it,” the source reports.

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Russia hopes to restore trade with China during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, where Putin will meet with Xi — Reuters

Trade between Russia and China rose to record levels as the war in Ukraine left Moscow isolated. But now it is falling, and Putin is trying to reverse this trend in preparation for the summit with President Xi Jinping.

After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western partners turned away from Russia, and China appeared, buying Russian oil and selling goods ranging from cars to electronics — this led to a record bilateral trade growth to $245 billion in 2024.

But now the situation has changed, and from January to July 2025, trade turnover decreased by 8.1% compared to the same period last year, caused by a drop in car imports to Russia and a reduction in oil exports to China. This decline is causing concern in Moscow.

China is Russia's largest trading partner, and Moscow is well aware of its dependence on Beijing in economic and military spheres — considering that China's economy is about 9 times larger than Russia's, there is no doubt who dominates these relations.

China provides the majority of Russia's export revenues, and the technologies supplied by Beijing are crucial for the Russian army. “Without them, we wouldn’t be able to manufacture a single missile, let alone drones, and the entire economy would have long since collapsed. If they wanted, the war would have ended long ago,” says a Russian source to the publication.

Another source close to the Russian government stated that Russia’s largest trading partners — China and India — mostly act in their own interests and that Moscow has no real allies. “China does not behave like an ally. Sometimes China lets us down and stops payments, sometimes it takes advantage of the situation, sometimes it’s outright robbery; there is nothing allied about it,” the source reports.

The overall trade decline from January to July is 8.1%, but some sectors have experienced a more significant drop, as shown by Chinese customs data.

Fuel exports from Russia during this period fell by almost 20%, imports of smartphones and computers decreased by 27.5%, and imports of vehicles from China, including passenger cars, tractors, and commercial trucks, dropped by 46% to $5.8 billion.

One source noted that projects in agriculture and energy sectors, such as the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline, could become a way to stimulate trade. But for many years, Russia has been unable to agree on supplying winter wheat to China, let alone building the gas pipeline.

An important point: demand for machine tool imports from China in 2025 will sharply decline, as Russian defense companies have successfully “re-equipped.”

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No you are the neocon spineless Bush/Cheney Rino type that defend the leftists and is in bed with them. The type that still lives in the Cold War and thinks we are duty bound to support anything that Israel wants. The type that refuses to call them or their agenda out. The Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Bill Kristol type.

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