Just as many Chinese people are worried that Trump’s rise to power will impose high tariffs on China, unexpectedly, our closest friend, Russia, has made the first move: According to foreign media reports on November 28, the Russian Association of Furniture and Wood Processing Enterprises (AMDPR) revealed that due to the increase in tariffs on Chinese furniture hardware accessories from zero to 55%, the price of Russian furniture may rise significantly.
At the same time, tariffs on similar accessories from Europe may only increase to 10%. Vadim Vildanov, General Manager of Boyarda, one of Russia’s largest furniture accessories suppliers, pointed out: “It is incomprehensible to impose stricter conditions on Chinese suppliers, who are considered friendly partners, than on European manufacturers. This is actually a suppression of Chinese suppliers, which in turn affects the entire Russian furniture industry.”
Vadim Vildanov, General Manager of Boyarda
Before the United States has launched a trade war against China, our closest friend has taken the lead. For many Russian fans: Are you surprised? Unexpected?
Of course, for me, who is not a “Russian fan”, it is not surprising at all. Firstly, the big bear is really short of money, and secondly, the big bear simply doesn’t take us seriously.
It is easy to understand that the big bear is short of money, but many Russian fans may disagree with the statement that it doesn’t take the big country seriously. In fact, the big bear not only doesn’t take China seriously, but it’s not the first or second time it has tricked China, and it has a long history of doing so. Not to mention occupying our millions of square kilometers of land, just in recent years, it has been asking China to support it while constantly tricking China.
At the beginning of this year, Russia initiated an international conference called Promoting Cooperation in the South China Sea. The conference not only invited countries along the South China Sea, such as Vietnam and the Philippines, but also invited non-South China Sea countries, such as India, but it did not invite China. Its intention to go behind China’s back, return to Southeast Asia’s sphere of influence, and contain China’s development is obvious.
In June of this year, the Great Emperor also personally visited North Korea, and the two sides signed the “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty”, began to undermine the big country’s foundation, and then invited the North Korean army to participate in the war in Russia, completely disrupting the big country’s strategic deployment.
In addition, the Great Emperor also personally visited traditional allies such as Mongolia, Vietnam, and Central Asia, and frequently used Sino-Indian friction for “horizontal and vertical alliances”, carefully laying out in China’s surrounding areas, leaving enough backhands to contain China after the war…
Regarding these actions by Russia, Russian fans are also dissatisfied: The relationship between the two countries has no upper limit, how could it calculate China?
Well, not to mention that it has been calculating China and occupying millions of square kilometers of Chinese territory for the past two hundred years, and it almost launched a nuclear strike against China in the 1960s, just to say that this kind of “friendship” now is just a helpless move under desperate circumstances for the big bear.
Russian fans can think about it, since the founding of Russia, from Kievan Rus’ to Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union, and then to present-day Russia, who has it had a real friendship with? Its history of development is a history of bloody expansion. Which of its neighboring countries has not been bullied by it? In the process of expansion, the massacres it created are one after another. In our country alone, it created the Blagoveshchensk Massacre, the Sixty-Four Villages East of the Amur Massacre, and the Vladivostok Massacre, which were all inhumane massacres.
Take the Vladivostok customs, which was exposed to impose high tariffs on China, for example. This place is the homeland of China, Vladivostok! Imposing high “import” tariffs on China on the occupied Chinese homeland is both magical and heartbreaking.
Of course, what Russian fans say most is the “lips and teeth dependence” theory: No matter what, we should now unite with Russia to confront NATO, otherwise, if Russia fails, NATO will deal with China next.
Well, let’s talk about this “lips and teeth dependence” theory today. Not to mention the distant past, if these Russian fans know the history of the past two or three decades, they will know that after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia applied to join NATO four times, but was rejected because it did not meet the conditions. If Russian fans are worried that NATO will deal with China after Russia fails, aren’t they worried that Russia will deal with China after joining NATO?
Moreover, these Russian fans are worried about this and that all day long, which is itself incomprehensible. As the saying goes, “If you don’t do anything wrong, you don’t fear the ghost knocking at your door.” How many wrong things have you done that you are so worried and afraid of being invaded by others all day long? Many European countries don’t even have borders, and residents can come and go freely. Some small countries don’t even have armies. Why aren’t they worried about others dealing with them?
Worrying about being invaded by others all day long is called being suspicious, and to put it bluntly, it is a typical masochist.
There is also a view that is often used as a catchphrase by Russian fans, which is “There are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.” This is a typical mentality of being unprincipled, self-serving, and forgetting righteousness when seeing profit. If you hold this mentality to make friends, you will definitely not make true friends, because in your eyes, there are only interests, not basic human values such as fairness and justice. Who would dare to associate with you?
The ancients said, “If you associate with others for profit, the profit will be exhausted and you will disperse; if you associate with others for power, the power will fail and you will fall.” This is true for interactions between people, and it is also true for interactions between countries. Russia’s focus is still on returning to Europe. Its interaction with the big country is only an expedient measure under difficult circumstances. Once the war is over and it is on good terms with the West, it is still its basic national policy. At that time, it is entirely possible for it to throw out the big country as a bargaining chip or even a name card.
And this time, preempting the United States to impose high tariffs on China is just another habitual display of its fangs…
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