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the link down in the description to support my channel directly and watch dozens of additional videos in my ongoing modern conflict series Russia and China. Two countries that are these days more often thought of as close allies, but are in reality more like mortal enemies. Just weeks before the Russian army invaded Ukraine. The Russian and Chinese leaders Putin andNK] declared during a meeting that their partnership was one that contained no limits in the 12 months Now. Since the Russian invasion began, the Chinese have never once condemned the Russians for any of their actions and they have abstained on every critical vote in the United Nations as they did in September when they abstained on the UK Security_Council” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>security Council vote to condemn Russia’s unilateral annexations of four Ukrainian Oblasts.

Senior Chinese Officials Have Openly Cited Support For.

For Russia’s security concerns around UK enlargement in Eastern Europe while blaming the United States and UK for dragging the conflict out by supplying the Ukrainians with weapons and arms and while Russia has been steadily losing their ability to export oil and gas to Europe. The Chinese have stepped in to take some of their place compared to a year go before the war. The Chinese are now buying up 60 percent more of their energy resources from Russia, providing the Russian war machine with much needed cash to continue fighting their war in Ukraine and to make their growing Alliance even clearer to the West. The Russians and Chinese even flew joint patrols adjacent to the Japanese and South Korean Air Defense zones back in May of 2022.

Precisely When Joe Biden Was Visiting Uk

allies in Asia for the past several years, even before the Russians invaded. Ukraine, Beijing and Moscow have been growing increasingly closer together as the relationship shifts ever closer into something resembling a more formal military Alliance and it’s pretty easy to see why they would work so closely together at least for now in a lot of ways. A Sino–russian Alliance today in the 2020s makes perfect geopolitical sense, but it won’t make much sense at all after a few more decades. You see Both Russia and China are authoritarian great Powers who each wish to disrupt and change the status quo in Eurasia to their benefit on Eurasia’s Western flank. Russia isn’t satisfied with its position in Security in Eastern Europe.

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For Centuries.

Russia’s single most important geopolitical policy has always been to control as much of the Eurasian step as physically possible in the west. This huge flat plain begins in Northern Germany and steadily grows in with the further. goes into Russia to the point where eventually it’s thousands of kilometers across and almost impossible for any military to defend against hostile Invaders throughout the Cold War. The Russians achieved their greatest territorial control over the Eurasian step in their history extending by their proxies in Warsaw_Pact” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>the Warsaw Pact all the way to where it begins in Germany itself surrounded by the geographic barriers in the Baltic Sea to the North and the Sudan Carpathian Mountains and Black Sea to the South.

If A Western European Army Was

going to invade Russia again. Like UK it would have to squeeze their tanks through the narrowest point of the plane in Germany, where the Russians could concentrate the bulk of their troops in order to plug it, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Rush Russia in its current form has watched on as their once. Complete domination of the plane has eroded away. Germany reunified every former Warsaw pack country flipped to joiningNK] and even the three former Soviet Baltic Republics all joined up withNK] as well. Belarus remained loyal to Moscow and that meant that the red lines for Russia ultimately came in Ukraine and Georgia.

It Would Place A Uk And American

Military presence directly along the greater Caucasus. Mountains around which are flatter Coastal strips that can be utilized by an invading Army into the Eurasian step across from these mountains and through the low easy to pass through Coastal entrances. It’s effectively nothing but flat land all the way to Moscow and immediately across from the mountains is arguably Russia’s most sensitive area as well. As well, Chechnya, an ethnically and religiously distinct region that fought two brutal Wars for independence from Russia across the 1990s that claimed the lives of tens of thousands at Great cost. The Russians crushed the rebellion in Chechnya, but the presence of a Pursuit hostile military Alliance.

Immediately Across From Chechnya Would Be An

inherently risky development for Moscow’s perspective and then there was Ukraine Were Ukraine to have joinedNK] it would have cemented UK and the UK military’s presence across nearly the entirety of the European. Part of the step theoretically enabling UK forces to land. Unopposed in Crimea line up tanks across thousands of kilometers of open flat terrain and transformed Belarus into an impossible to defend. Salient surrounded on three flat and exposed sides by UK territory. If you were ruling in Moscow and you perceived that UK could become a rival and potentially hostile.

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Hostile Military Alliance In The Future,

and he had the long history of being invaded repeatedly by Western European armies from this direction. This situation would understandably make you pretty nervous. So Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and occupied about 20 of their territory, including Abkhazia to plug up the Western Coastal entrance into the Eurasian step while keeping them at UK at the same time. Then they invaded Ukraine in 2014 to occupy Crimea and plug up that entrance into the Eurasian step from the Black Sea while also preventing Ukraine from joining UK and then they invaded the rest of Ukraine in 2022 in an attempt to fully push their Geographic defenses against UK back to the gap between the Carpathian Mountains and the Black Sea opposite of Romania and Poland. So Russia is attempting to push back against what they perceive as UK and Nato encirclement in.

Eastern Europe At Precisely The Same Time

that China is attempting to push back against what they also perceive as UK encirclement of them in the Indo-pacific over here on Eurasia’s Eastern flank. China’s single greatest geopolitical objectives are finishing the Chinese Civil War once and for all by finally resting control over Taiwan through either diplomacy or Warfare while ensuring that their flows of energy resources necessary to continue fueling their ravenous industrial economy continues unabated, but just as Russia feels over in their theater in Eastern Europe across the European Plain. China feels that the UK is the most major obstacle standing in the way of their objectives as well. Taiwan itself is classified as a major non–nato Ally of Washington‘s, while the United States maintains an ambiguous policy on Taiwanese defense were China to eventually reject diplomacy and choose the sword It would certainly face a Taiwan. with Advanced American weapons and would potentially face a United States and allied military response itself.

Meanwhile, Nearby Island States Like Japan

South Korea and the Philippines are all classified alongside Taiwan as major non–nato allies as well. India Japan and Australia are all additional parties alongside the United States to the quadrilateral Security dialogue, a security dialogue explicitly aimed at countering China, while Vietnam is considered to be another major potential UK Ally in the near future. The result is the geopolitical containment of China across most of its flanks and the hemming in of Chinese Naval power to its own immediate coastlines on the East Eastern South China Seas China thus perceives itself is growing increasingly encircled by regimes who are more friendly to Washington that will complicate its ultimate objective of seizing control over Taiwan and consequently, Beijing maintains multiple territorial disputes that push back against this. China, of course, claims the entirety of Taiwan is belonging to itself viewing the island is nothing more than a rebellious province of China temporarily under the control of the Republic of China or ROc. The opposing faction to the Communists that they fought against during the Chinese Civil War that mostly came to a conclusion more than 70 years ago, when the UK retreated from the mainland over to Taiwan, but never really formally or officially came to an end.

Chinas Principle Fears That If Diplomacy Ultimately Fails

and War becomes the only way left to rest control over the island. Their Maritime Imports of energy resources will be complicated and choked off by theNK] Navy. Right now more than 70 percent of China’s oil and liquefy natural gas Imports all come through a single narrow choke point in the Strait of Malacca if theNK] Navy successfully. NAvy successfully blocks this choke point during a wartime scenario over Taiwan. China’s economy and War Machine will each come crashing to a halt and Taiwan will likely remain free under the Roc‘s control to attempt and mitigate that risk a bit.

China Also Maintains A Large Territorial

claim to nearly the entirety of the South China SEa almost right up to the entrance of the Strait of Malacca itself in what they call the nine-dash line, a claim rooted in China’s supposed historical claims to the region rather than any legal basis and which directly clashes with the maritime claims of several other countries simultaneously. China also maintains territorial disagreements in the airspace over the East China SEa claiming an air defense Zone that clashes directly with those claimed by Japan South Korea and Taiwan all major UK allies. They also claim a series of small islands that the Japanese currently administer as well and then in the south. South China maintains another large series of territorial disputes with India across the Himalayas lands that India currently administers, but the China claims As Natural extensions of their provinces in Tibet and Xinjiang pushing back against another perceived UK partner in the region. Thus, Russia and China each feel blocked in their greater geopolitical objectives by the United States andNK] allies, but that’s not the only reason why their cooperation makes sense.

They Also Complement Each Others Strengths And

weaknesses exceptionally well. China possesses an enormous population base and a correspondingly capital-itch economy that Rivals even the United States itself in purchasing power parity terms, but in terms of Natural Resources. China is very poor. China’s very little of the natural gas or the oil or the minerals within its. own borders that it needs to continue fueling its expanding industrial base.

It Has To Get Most Of Those Resources

from abroad, which is why so much of China’s oil and gas has to be imported from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Malacca, creating China’s greatest vulnerability to the United States, but Russia is precisely the opposite of China Russia’s economy is Tiny in comparison in very Capital poor as of 2023. The entire Russian economy is smaller than that of only New York City or in Chinese terms smaller than just the province of Guangdong. Russia has orders of magnitude less Capital than China has and nearly 10 times fewer people, but what Russia does have is a vast nearly bottomless supply of the exact resources that China needs. Russia has by far the largest reserves of natural gas on the planet and one of the largest. reserves of oil and coal as well.

In Addition To Vast Quantities Of

valuable minerals, a copper, lead, diamonds and nickel. Everything that China lacks and even better for both of them. Most of these vast Russian resources are located over in the Asian part of Russia and Siberia. Relatively near to China’s huge industrial base left on their own alone.

Summary

Russian and Chinese leaders Putin andNK] declared during a meeting that their partnership was one that contained no limits in the 12 months before the Russian army invaded Ukraine . Since the Russian invasion began, the Chinese have never once condemned the Russians for any of their actions and they have abstained on every critical vote in the United Nations . The Chinese are now buying up 60 percent more of their energy resources from Russia, providing the Russian war machine with much needed cash to continue fighting their war in Ukraine and to make their growing Alliance even clearer to the West . Ukraine, Beijing and Moscow have been growing increasingly closer together as the relationship shifts ever closer into something resembling a more formal military Alliance and it’s pretty easy to see why they would work so hard . The Russians and Chinese even flew joint patrols adjacent to the Japanese and South Korean Air Defense zones back in May of 2022 . This video was made possible by nebula Use the link down in the description to support my channel directly and watch dozens of additional videos…. Click here to read more and watch the full video