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China to build $200 million fishery project on Australia’s doorstep : Comments
By Jeffrey Wall, published 16/12/2020With Australia’s relationship with China under great pressure, a project that challenges our strategic national interest has been quietly endorsed by the Papua New Guinea government
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On talk of a China-Russia alliance.
Like any 2 great powers sharing a long border, relations between China and Russia are complex. They flactuate. They are nowhere near being in alliance.
True commentators have made much of a 22 Dec 2020 joint air Exercise. "The Russian military said that a pair of its Tu-95 strategic bombers and four Chinese H-6K bombers flew over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea on Tuesday." http://7news.com.au/politics/russian-chinese-bombers-fly-over-pacific-c-1820089
But http://7news.com.au/politics/russian-chinese-bombers-fly-over-pacific-c-1820089 goes on to say:
"It follows Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement in [Oct 2020] that the idea of a future Russia-China military alliance should not be ruled out - a signal of deepening military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing amid growing tension in their relations with the United States.
Until that moment, Russia and China had hailed their "strategic partnership" BUT [PUTIN] REJECTED any talk about the possibility of their forming a military alliance."
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This is noting in 1969 Russia and China mobilised 10,000s of troops against each other in a border war. A war in which the Russian High Command discussed the nuclear weapon option. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split#Border_conflict
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So China and Russia are frequently nervous neighbours http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Russian_relations_since_1991
"Russian commentators have increasingly raised concerns about China's ambitions and influence in Central Asia, an area traditionally within Russian influence.[6]"
Also, in December 2019, Russian Rostec officials accused China of intellectual property theft of a range of military technologies.[143] In June 2020, Russia charged one of its Arctic scientists of passing sensitive information to China.[144]
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So Russian-Chinese relations remain complicated. They are nowhere near being in alliance.