fronteira russo-chinesa

Na linha dos comentários sobre o Dragão, olha a China projetando-se em território russo… Seis milhões de russo X noventa milhões de chineses! Lendo a matéria, os números de ambos os gigantes impressionam.

Pequim olha para o extremo oriente da Rússia e suas inesgotáveis fontes de matéria-prima. Isso não vai dar certo…

05/06/2011 12:24 PM

Change in Russia’s Far East – China’s Growing Interests in Siberia

By Matthias Schepp

There are just 6 million Russians left on the Siberian side of the border with China. Ninety million Chinese, backed by a voracious economy, live on the other side. China’s influence in Russia’s far east is growing rapidly and Siberia has become the raw material supplier to Beijing’s economic miracle.

One needs a lot of time and patience to reach the remote Russian settlement of Mirnaya. It takes almost four days to cover the 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) from Moscow to Lake Baikal in Siberia. Another 1,000 kilometers brings one to the regional capital of Chita, an old Cossack center. Mirnaya is still another 300 kilometers by car to the southeast, in the direction of China. Continuar lendo →