Western analysis of Russia and China’s growing relationship focuses on the political, but largely ignores the fact that in economic and trade terms, both tend to complement each other. One has what the other needs, and vice versa.
The world’s most populated country needs food and the world’s largest state has plenty of space for farming. Now, as Beijing looks to protect the long-term security of its food supply, it has proposed the creation of a soybean alliance with Russia, to help reduce China’s reliance on the US.
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