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Re:China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia? by JumpCrisscross on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:37PM (#41144304)
> claim that less trade is occurring is as likely to be the result of improved concealment as any actual change in quantity

Have you done business in China? They’re not idiots. Russia’s GDP is half of California’s.

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Re:China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia? by topspin on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:52PM (#41144352)
> They’re not idiots.

I made no such inference. The opposite, in fact. My argument relies entirely on the organization of large scale concealment of trade. That involves smart, discrete people.

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Re:China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia? by JumpCrisscross on Saturday August 03, 2024 @03:26PM (#41148653)
The point is trading with Russia threatens China’s trade with America. It is irrational for Beijing to condone it.
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Re:China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia? by topspin on Saturday August 03, 2024 @09:31PM (#41150532)
The Chinese understand plausible deniability.
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