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Russia And China Open Cross-border Bridge As Ties Deepen by Teazer4(op): 6:32pm On Jun 10, 2022

Russia and China opened a new cross-border bridge in the far-east today - in the hopes of further boosting trade as Moscow reels from sweeping Western sanctions imposed over its actions in Ukraine.

The bridge linking the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to the Chinese city of Heihe across the Amur river - known in China as Heilongjiang - is just over one kilometre long and cost 19 billion roubles (£276m), the RIA news agency reported.

Russian authorities said the bridge would bring Moscow and Beijing closer together by boosting trade after they announced a "no limits" partnership in February, shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine.

"In today's divided world, the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe bridge between Russia and China carries a special symbolic meaning," said Yuri Trutnev, the Kremlin representative in the Russian far east.

China wants to deepen practical cooperation with Russia in all areas, Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua said at the opening.

Russia's Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said the bridge would help boost bilateral annual trade to more than one million tonnes of goods

https://news sky com/story/ukraine-news-live-war-russia-putin-nuclear-latest-invasion-updates-12541713

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Re: Russia And China Open Cross-border Bridge As Ties Deepen by RepoMan007: 6:41pm On Jun 10, 2022*

West has no answer to this in the meantime. On the long run, I see the west trying to adjust their industrial practices to compete with China's in a bid to hurt China's industries and severe them from Russia. Whether they will succeed is what I won't gamble on just yet.

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