China is having a lot of fun with Russia
https://youtu.be/aV1YnBMIEHI?si=Se7TVxKpPQtCnwPc
It just goes on and on.
They just took it over the Russian marketplace for vehicles and the Russians are really pissed because they rust out in a year. They are really expensive but it doesn't really matter because China won't even deal in Russian rubles. The massive trade deals have to be worked out in their yuan. Which in turn means they get to print money to buy Russian oil to then let Russians buy overpriced cars that fail in a year and have no service. And the Russians can't make them themselves anymore and have to import the European ones via alternative channels, IE: smuggling.
So basically the Chinese are trading the Russians oil for cars at an incredible profit/discount depending on which side of the equation you are looking at.
That's just the starting point of the rape of the Russian economy, or what's left of it.
My favorite is the Chinese Bitcoin miners creating massive farms while stealing the electricity to run them and they are in Siberia so their AC is free.
The narrator on this is pretty good at hooking you with a bit of story and then flipping you around with ever increasing issues.
It just goes on and on.
They just took it over the Russian marketplace for vehicles and the Russians are really pissed because they rust out in a year. They are really expensive but it doesn't really matter because China won't even deal in Russian rubles. The massive trade deals have to be worked out in their yuan. Which in turn means they get to print money to buy Russian oil to then let Russians buy overpriced cars that fail in a year and have no service. And the Russians can't make them themselves anymore and have to import the European ones via alternative channels, IE: smuggling.
So basically the Chinese are trading the Russians oil for cars at an incredible profit/discount depending on which side of the equation you are looking at.
That's just the starting point of the rape of the Russian economy, or what's left of it.
My favorite is the Chinese Bitcoin miners creating massive farms while stealing the electricity to run them and they are in Siberia so their AC is free.
The narrator on this is pretty good at hooking you with a bit of story and then flipping you around with ever increasing issues.