🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 Power of Siberia 2: Russia and China tighten energy ties despite US pressure

🗣Russian natural gas is vital for China, and expanded supplies through the Power of Siberia 2.0 pipeline bring major gains for Beijing, John Gong, professor of economics at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, tells Sputnik.

"This provides a cost-effective supply of natural gas, not subject to any choke points by anyone," Gong stresses.

🟠 In 2024, Gazprom supplied China with 31.12 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas. Deliveries are planned to reach 38 bcm in 2025.

🟠 The new pipeline, Power of Siberia 2, is designed to deliver 50 bcm annually to China. A legally binding memorandum on the project has been signed by Russia, China, and Mongolia.

🟠 China will receive gas from fields that were previously used to supply Europe.

"China is under immense pressure from Washington not to buy Russian oil and energy products... But it's pretty clear that both countries are not going to budge or be bullied into giving up their own national interests."

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🇩🇪🔍 Mysterious deaths of AfD members before elections in Germany – what’s known

German media recently reported on four candidates from the right-wing party who had died ahead of the local elections in the North Rhine-Westphalia region (scheduled for September 14).

As of now, the number has risen to six. Two more of their party members have passed away, the AfD spokesperson confirmed to the media.

Despite the suspicious nature of the situation, law enforcement has no evidence of criminal activity related to these deaths.
The last two deaths were due to chronic liver disease leading to kidney failure, as well as suicide, party representatives said.

Just before the elections, four AfD members died:

🟠 AfD candidate Ralph Lange (in Blomberg)

🟠 Stefan Berendes, a candidate for the city council (in Bad Lippspringe)

🟠 AfD candidate Wolfgang Klinger (in Schwerte)

🟠 AfD candidate Wolfgang Seitz (in Rheinberg)

💬 There is no reason to believe that these deaths are connected in any way, AfD parliamentary deputy Kay Gottschalk stated.

The data available to the party “at least at this moment does not support these suspicions.”

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🇷🇺🇰🇵Putin and Kim Jong-un heading to negotiations in the same car

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🇷🇺🇰🇵Putin-Kim Jong-un meeting kicks off in Beijing

Key Putin's statements:

🟠Putin says glad to have opportunity to hold separate meeting with Kim Jong-un

🟠Relations between Russia and North Korea developing in special way

🟠Commemorative events for 80th anniversary of end of WWII in Beijing held at high level

🟠Putin notes role of North Korean military in liberation of Kursk region in full compliance with agreement between countries

🟠Russia will never forget North Korea's role in fight against modern neo-Nazism

🟠North Korean soldiers fought heroically in Kursk region

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🇷🇺🇨🇳This is a Russia-China week, this is a Greater Eurasia week — Pepe Escobar for Sputnik on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵Kim Jong-un to Putin - key details

🟠Relations between Russia and North Korea are developing in all aspects

🟠The North Korean leader will discuss prospects for developing relations between Russia and North Korea

🟠If North Korea can help Russia in any way, it will definitely do so, it is FRATERNAL DUTY

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🇷🇺🇰🇵 PUTIN TO KIM JONG-UN: Pleased to discuss our bilateral relations

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🚨🇷🇺🇰🇵KIM JONG-UN TO PUTIN: If North Korea can help Russia in any way, it will definitely do so, it is FRATERNAL DUTY

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🚨🇷🇺🇰🇵 PUTIN THANKS NORTH KOREA FOR PARTICIPATING IN LIBERATION OF KURSK REGION

"I want to emphasize that your soldiers fought bravely and heroically"

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🗣Key statements by Russian Foreign Ministry Spox at Eastern Economic Forum

🟠The date and location for the next round of Russia-US negotiations are currently being agreed upon. The political foundation for restarting the strategic dialogue between Russia and the US is still being formed, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

🟠Return to Ukraine's original neutral and non-nuclear status is guarantee of its security.

🟠Ukraine and its European sponsors reject the possibility of any compromises on the settlement despite the Trump's administration, which is interested in resolving the conflict.

🟠Zakharova didn't rule out the direct control by Western countries of the Ukrainian armed forces' strikes on the Druzhba oil pipeline.

🟠The US is showing noticeable interest in unique Russian technologies for work in the Arctic.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳🇰🇵Kremlin read Trump's message about alleged 'conspiracy' between Russia, China and North Korea

Kremlin hopes that Trump's words about alleged "conspiracy" of Russia, China, and North Korea was irony, Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov told Russian journalists.

✔️The leaders had no thought of any "plotting" during commemoration events in China, he noted.

Everyone understands what role the US and Trump himself play in current international situation, Ushakov added.

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🟠Putin-Kim Jong-un meeting takes place in Beijing

🟠Watch: Highlights of the Victory Parade in Beijing

🟠Eastern Economic Forum kicks off in Russian Vladivostok, Pepe Escobar welcomes the event

Check out Sputnik’s analysis:

🟠SCO: From security to global governance

🟠Power of Siberia 2: Russia and China tighten energy ties despite US pressure

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🤖ROBOT IN USHANKA MEETS VISITORS OF EASTERN ECONOMIC FORUM

A robot in a traditional Russian ushanka hat invites everyone to explore the results of Russian-Chinese cooperation at the Amur Region pavilion at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok

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🚨🇷🇺🇰🇵 BREAKING: Putin invites North Korea's Kim to Russia

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