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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by saiya-jin on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:34AM (#30615576)
Not so sure about that market part... its 160 million of mostly poor folks who are becoming massively more poor as we write here. That's not so lucrative market compared to ie Europe with 500+ million wealthier citizens. But yeah Chinese cheap stuff will not have much competition.
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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by jessaustin on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:53AM (#30615797)
China can trade with Russia as much as it wants. Ukraine might sanction them, but no one else is going to cut off China.
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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by _ph_ on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:21PM (#30617235)
The point in the previous comment was, that there is little China can get from a trade with Russia other than natural resources. Russia is quickly running out of foreign money.

While the West cannot "cut off" China as too much manufacturing has moved there, supporting Russia in this already has an impact on the reception of Chinese brands in the West. Perhaps less so in the US, but so far Chinese brands are quite popular in the EU. This could change quickly. Also this encourages to reduce the dependencies on China.

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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by jessaustin on Thursday March 10, 2022 @07:09AM (#30626015)
As a populous nation whose economy is based primarily on manufacturing, natural resources is the main thing that China would want to obtain from any other nation, particularly one with whom it shares the sixth-longest international border.
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