🇷🇺🇨🇳 #Russia’s two-way trade with #China rose to $136.67 billion between January and July, a 1.6% increase compared to last year, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/07/russia-china-trade-rises-by-16-so-far-in-2024-a85951
@rvps2001
Now they are looking into the options to transition to barter: https://www.reuters.com/markets/first-russia-china-barter-trade-may-come-this-autumn-sources-say-2024-08-08/
That is exactly what bilateral trade between two great superpowers looks like in the new multipolar world! Pooteen's dream comes true 🤣
Yeah, I've just read the news, thanks)
@rvps2001
Didn't mean to barge into your newsflow, you're doing one hell of a job, but… This is just too funny 😂
I'm currently reading a book about early investments into Russian and Ukrainian Internet sectors and there is a whole paragraph about how bad the barter was and how everyone was happy when it was left in the nineties. But certain geostrategician brought even that back now 🤦
@m0xee
And that geostrategist used to scare people with the 1990s)