Trade relations with countries around the world, including russia. Mr. Valery, this visit of antony blinken, a month and a half before the start of the global peace summit, is this one of the ways to convince the chinese side, after all, to consider the arguments of the ukrainian parties and the World Community in general, regarding the russianukrainian war, it is possible. To adjust the position of beijing, well , to adjust in quotation marks, it is meant, because, well, for beijing, as you know, there is no aggressor, there are two sides, there is some kind of crisis, they talk about it all the time, that is, they dont even say the word war, well , first of all, the position is dishonest, because in part i can agree with the assessment that we have heard now, but the statute in. Where, by the way, is china , the peoples republic of china accepted with the vote of ukrainian ukraine at the time when the seat was transferred the republic of china, now taiwan, the peoples republic of chi
Should not lead to escalation, on the contrary, i think that such a clear position is shared, well, it has not been adopted yet, but it is only on the sidelines, it is discussed behind closed doors , but when it comes out publicly, it will be seen that putin is a loser, while china will be forced to change its position, of course china does not want to be under pressure, and no one likes it, and of course it is a strong country. It can respond, well , i would like china to use its skills, which have been used before, calmly, not to get involved in such tough confrontations, to influence, to increase its influence of soft power, there by economic means, it is more profitable for china, i think that they will find this position as more pragmatic, and they will slowly change their approach, but its not now, now i. I dont see them dramatically changing their approach. Well, as far as i understand, mr. Valery, now our western partners and putin are trying to convince xi jinping to take one
Everyone will swallow it , yes, this is a game to leave some platform where russia wants to discuss on an equal footing, they will play along, because at one time the soviet union had already played along, when america had its own initiative, remember, under reagan, just, well, she bluffed a bit , because the costs are huge, then only for the first one stage, it was 20 billion dollars at once, and the soviet union then bought into this. Story, soybeans, once all these elements began, the soviet union also began to chase after all this, as a result, this is one of the factors that led to that the economic collapse and the fall of this country in general, the collapse of the soviet union, the truth is quite artificially created, so that they play along, er, the americans can react in a different way, they will say about the fact that some are already there under. Preparation, they will not wait , theyll just run there by the dozen as they can to do, and then they will ask putin, what did
Security must be considered in a complex way, that is, roughly, you dont want us to take out a nuclear satellite, give us a free hand in ukraine, well, thats bullshit, that is, its delusional, it wont work that way. Another point that our western partners are currently recording is in particular, the minister of defense of germany, boris pistorius, in an interview with ard, he stated that russia is already producing more. Weapons than it needs to wage war against ukraine and cautioned against further military ambitions of the russian dictator. Lets hear what pistorius said. Russias military economy was streamlined, and now most of the weapons produced no longer go to the front, but end up in warehouses. One can be naive and say that he is doing it out of caution. As a skeptic, id rather say in this case that he does. As something plans, or i have already thought of something. Well, that is, russia is following the path of an arms race, the soviet union demonstrated absolutely identical
Of building the russians into this 10foot tall man that they are not today. The russians have also admitted they are increasing their operational tempo. Of the previous head of the russian navy stated in 2015, their submarine activities had increased 50 in 2015 compared to 2014. As part of the study the Team Productivity to travel throughout the region, stopping in uk, sweden, finland and warsaw. We conducted another workshop here in dc. These were ultimately helpful in building out our findings and making sure we were tempering the report conclusion correctly. This is a useful image, actually taken from a study that looked at nato, any submarine more pair, science and Technology Cooperation during the cold war, so there are some things about it that are a bit off, notably the Breakout Group of russian subs from the baltic sea into the north sea. Might not be the operational construct of the day, but this really captures sort of the scope of the problem. For us looking to the north, yo