Sowing an alliance between my resource rich but manufacturing poor enemy and my manufacturing rich but resource poor enemy: "HAHAHAHA THIS RULES, I LOVE SOWING, THIS WILL NEVER COME BACK TO HAUNT ME!"
Reaping the consequences of an alliance between my enemies who now complement each other's strengths and weaknesses: "Nooooo! This sucks! Nobody ever told me I'd have to reap! I hate reaping! Mods! Mods! Ban Russia for hax!"
Literally all of this could have been avoided if the West put a hold on their chauvanism for a decade or two to get Russia on side. Nope, only looting and racism.
China isn't even resource poor. They simply have not tapped into their resources. When they start mining the massive mountainous parts of the country...
China isn't resource poor but it doesn't have the surplus resources necessary to support an industrial export economy while providing for its own people.
Russia, on the other hand, has more resources than it's population could conceivably consume. Hence, an export surplus to support the Chinese economy.
Sowing an alliance between my resource rich but manufacturing poor enemy and my manufacturing rich but resource poor enemy: "HAHAHAHA THIS RULES, I LOVE SOWING, THIS WILL NEVER COME BACK TO HAUNT ME!"
Reaping the consequences of an alliance between my enemies who now complement each other's strengths and weaknesses: "Nooooo! This sucks! Nobody ever told me I'd have to reap! I hate reaping! Mods! Mods! Ban Russia for hax!"
Literally all of this could have been avoided if the West put a hold on their chauvanism for a decade or two to get Russia on side. Nope, only looting and racism.
China isn't even resource poor. They simply have not tapped into their resources. When they start mining the massive mountainous parts of the country...
China isn't resource poor but it doesn't have the surplus resources necessary to support an industrial export economy while providing for its own people.
Russia, on the other hand, has more resources than it's population could conceivably consume. Hence, an export surplus to support the Chinese economy.
They probably won't need Russian resources and will be free to dump this alliance