Higher shipments of Russian crude oil to China may saddle European importers with a fatter bill, an industry consultancy warned at the end of last year, noting the latest stage of Russia’s Eastern pivot: the launch of the expanded East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline that would lift Urals crude supply to China twofold, to 30 million tons annually. FGE said in a note quoted by Bloomberg that Russia will start moving more Urals eastward right after the launch of the pipeline extension, at a rate of 160,000 bpd. The overall increase of Russian crude shipments to China, according to the consultancy, could be around 200,000 bpd. This means less oil for Europe, which is Russia’s number-one oil client. This only highlights the significance of Moscow’s Asian pivot amid lingering European sanctions following the 2014 annexation of Crimea and Russia’s involvement in separatist conflicts
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is lashing out against Russia's plans to open a natural gas pipeline to supply energy to Germany, saying Saturday that it threatens stability in the region. "Like Poland, the United States opposes the Nord Stream 2 pipeline," Tillerson said while at a joint press conference in Warsaw with Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. "We see it as undermining Europe's overall energy security and stability," Tillerson continued. "Our opposition is driven by our mutual strategic interests." Russia is a top supplier of natural gas to Europe, which the Trump administration is seeking to change by encouraging the export of U.S. natural gas exports into the European market now that the U.S. is a top producer of the fuel. Russia's Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that is still being constructed would supply Germany and other parts of Europe with the
evgeny wrote:Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario
A Russian-German relationship could logically emerge from this. The former would begin as economic and edge toward military. The Russian-German bloc would attempt to bring others into its coalition.
rangerone314 wrote:Chinese immigrants will eventually overrun Russia and make Russia (especially Siberia) a small province of China demographically
Just like illegal immigrants will demographically remake the US into the image of Mexico, complete with grenade throwing drug gangs and cops who demand money to hand your drivers licence back to you.
The future is going to be so much fun.
theluckycountry wrote: China certainly has some issues financially, but it's population is under control and it now has premium access to energy from Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and food from Brazil and soon the other major SA nations......The west is screwed but it's been a good run, 400 odd years.
Plantagenet wrote:
Demographics is destiny----and because of demographics actually its China that is screwed.
T-Platforms, a Russian company with ambitions to build exascale supercomputers and develop domestic CPUs, was officially declared bankrupt in October 2022. T-Platforms had been among the few Russian companies capable of producing supercomputers that could compete on a global scale. T-Platform's bankruptcy proceedings have led to the auctioning of various assets, including the intellectual property, patents, and shares of Baikal Electronics. The IP is related to the development of Baikal processors, which rely on the Arm and MIPS instruction set architectures.
The technology being auctioned is outdated, to say the least. The Baikal-M1 processor, for instance, is based on eight outdated Arm Cortex-A57 cores operating at 1.50 GHz and outfitted with an 8MB L3 cache that is accompanied by an eight-cluster Arm Mali-T628 GPU with two display pipelines. TSMC made the SoC on its 28nm fabrication process. Meanwhile, Baikal's 48-core Baikal-S SoC for servers has never entered mass production. Since both processors are now obsolete, Baikal's assets have been valued at 484 million rubles ($5 million). The auction is scheduled for September 26, 2023.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/11/16/ ... th-russia/The Prime Minister said the decision was made because “in recent months more people have been trying to cross the border with incomplete travel documents.” Previously, Russia did not allow those with such problems to cross.
In addition, according to Finnish border guards, 280 Russians have legally entered the country through the eastern border since September 2023.
https://www.finlandtimes.fi/national/20 ... -continuesSep, 2015 About a thousand asylum seekers arrived in Tornio on Saturday from Sweden, according to Aila Ylinärä from Tornio parish. Ylinärä said the number of newcomers on Sunday was high but she could not evaluate the exact number.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/2023 ... mmigrationJun 19, 2023 · THE FINNISH REFUGEE COUNCIL has voiced its alarm about the asylum and immigration policy outlines forwarded in the newly published government
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/musl ... -countriesIn an address delivered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Ayed said that the European countries are not motivated by compassion toward the refugees, but by their need for labor. “We shall conquer their countries,” he declared in the address, which was posted on the internet on September 11, 2015.
...the Germans say, in their economic reports, that they need 50,000 young workers. Now, they have got 20,000, and they want another 30,000 and more, to work in their factories. They are not motivated by compassion for the Levant, its people, and its refugees. Throughout Europe, all the hearts are infused with hatred toward Muslims. They wish that we were dead. But they have lost their fertility, so they look for fertility in their midst. We will give them fertility! We will breed children with them, because we shall conquer their countries – whether you like it or not, oh Germans, oh Americans, oh French, oh Italians, and all those like you. Take the refugees! We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming Caliphate.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News ... tures.htmlGermany’s Wintershall Dea and Austria’s OMV are being stripped of their multi-billion-dollar stakes in joint ventures developing natural gas projects in Russia under a decree by Vladimir Putin.
The Russian president has signed a decree ordering that the shares of the two Western energy companies in the Yuzhno-Russkoye field and in the Achimov projects in Russia’s Arctic be transferred to newly set up Russian firms. According to Putin’s decree, all corporate agreements that have been in force so far are no longer valid.
The move is part of Russia’s efforts to protect its national interests “amid the illegal and unfriendly actions of the West in relation to Russian assets,” according to the decree cited by Reuters. Wintershall Dea is in the process of exiting Russian operations while OMV announced an exit last year. Commenting on Putin’s latest decree, a spokesperson for Wintershall Dea told Reuters in a written response to questions that “The presidential decree is further confirmation: Russia is no longer a reliable economic partner and is unpredictable - in every respect.”
BASF told Reuters on Wednesday it learned of the order for asset seizures from the news and it was in the process of analyzing all the facts. OMV and Wintershall Dea are not the first major Western oil and gas firms to have their Russian assets transferred to newly created Russian entities.
theluckycountry wrote:The West stole Russian capital abroad and imposed sanctions, which though they backfired were none the less a slap in the face. Well as Western Europe grapples with finding enough Gas to run it's homes and industries, Russia is giving a little of its own. This happens in War btw.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News ... tures.html
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:This realpolitik new world order is slowly sinking in for the politicians in the EU and even more slowly in the USA. The UK politicians are too schizo to predict at all they are starting to remind me of France circa 1938!
Meanwhile the Russian economy hums along supplying Asia including sales and trade with South Korea, the Philippines and Japan erstwhile allies of the USA.
Tanada wrote: ....the Russian economy hums along supplying Asia
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