普京发信号 俄中战略伙伴生变 未必围堵遏制中国

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VOA Chinese, Nov 13, 2013.
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 131113/1789277.html

Note: President Putin: A Force for Peace in Asia and the World. Voice of Russia, Nov 13, 2013.
http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_11 ... and-the-world-7556/

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"This economic shift [of Russia's moves worldwide] away from the weakening paper based petro dollar and the US whose real debt is now said to be in the neighborhood of $205 trillion dollars [US GDP=$16.66 trillion at the end of 2Q13], effectively making it bankrupt, is also coupled with a military and geopolitical shift away from US/NATO and their policies of force and acquisition of resources by nefarious means and the over throwing of governments and endless war.

"Among the key agreements signed in Hanoi by President Putin and President Truong Tan Sang were a new military deal that will see Russia train Vietnamese navy and armed forces and increase the types of military equipment Russia will sell to Vietnam.

"One key area of great importance to the Korean people is the issue of Korean integration and President Putin called for this to be done peacefully and with the respect to the mutual wishes of all of the Korean people. With Russia’s good relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea President Putin may be one of the few leaders in the world who can truly assist the Koreas in finally uniting.

Note: Please read the second last section with the heading "Korean Unification."
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(2) 普京出访越韩 拉拢中国周边国家 加紧战略转向. VOA Chinese, Nov 12, 2013.
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 131112/1788575.html
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(3) Ekaterina Shatalova & Nicholas Brautlecht, Putin Builds North Korea Rail to Circumvent Suez Canal. Bloomberg, Oct 15, 2013.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20 ... ent-suez-canal.html

Quote:

"Shipments to and from western Europe and Rajin will be delivered in just 14 days * * * While Russian Railways says time savings will make up for the higher costs compared with the Suez route, the services train operators already run between China and Europe are too costly, said Michael Tasto, an economist at the German Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics. They thus lack the capacity to take major market share from container-shipping companies such as A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S. 'The rail route is faster but more expensive, so it will probably become a niche product,' Tasto said by phone Oct. 7. 'Cargo trains are not mass-transportation vehicles like container ships.'

"Putin has urged South Korean President Park Geun Hye, who assumed office in February, to work with North Korea on relinking their rail networks, most recently last month at the Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg. * * * North and South Korea resumed cross-border rail service in 2007 for the first time in 56 years amid a mood of detente, though North Korea closed it down after 18 months and hasn’t reopened it since.