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The Chinese will do what they always do, get what they can at as cheap a price as they can from Russia. There is no love lost between those two. Russia had little enough to do with them before all this. It was mostly talk. Note where the vast majority of their pipelines went. West, not East and since the 1980's. That was where the cash was for them and they needed Western tech to build and maintain most of it.
Emerging powerhouses? Forgetting their internal issues for a moment; China is almost entirely dependent on the Western markets. The EU alone absolutely dwarfs their market with Russia. The US, EU and China play their little games with each other, but they're like a couple that bickers in public, but beind closed doors they're riding each other into the mattress. Russia's the guy looking through their keyhole pulling the skeleton out of himself. India has always played both since the days of the Cold War, but like the Chinese they're not stupid. They'll play both sides when it suits, but only up to a point. Western companies are throwing huge wedges of cash at India and have been for a while. Always follow the money. BRICS? Russia might come second in that name, but they don't come second in reality. China and India will run that show by soft power or hard.
Oh and where does the Indian diaspora(and the Chinese for that matter) look to move to if they go overseas? It isn't Mother Russia. People are leaving Russia, not wanting to go there. So for all these "social and political problems" putin goes on about(mostly the Gays, it's all about the Gays with him), where do the vast majority of legal educated economic migrants(never mind refugees and asylum seekers) want to go to? These "emerging powehouses"? Nope. Russia? Hell no. The West. That's where they want to go and there's a reason for that.
Very early on in this Russian mess one thing they did floored me, and IMHO was one of their biggest mistakes of all. They confiscated the Boeing/Airbus fleet in Russia. Barely made the headlines at the time and is largely forgotten since, but for me that kneejerk response showed how truly stupid they can be. Overnight they were cut off from Western financing, leasing and insurance and the international aviation industries and authorities(their internal aviation industry has fallen off a cliff). And what did their "friends" China and India do and what it shows what they will do in the future over similar when it comes to it? They also banned those aircraft from their airspace. Always follow the money. When the Swiss back away from you, that's one hell of an indicator.
And yep Russia has huge natural resources and a small pretty well educated population compared to landmass. They should be living like Norwegians, or better, but they're not. Why? Because of insane levels of corruption and theft by their tiny elite and a culture that supports that tacitly or actively. This idiotic wasteful war that is killing their own people as well as Ukrainians shows that all too well. When a tiny not so long ago dirt poor damp(still damp) island off the coast of Europe like Ireland has bigger exports than Russia that speaks volumes about just how buggered that nation is or has become. Turning that around anytime soon would be like trying to turn a supertanker with a single oar.
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