#fareast — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fareast, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/news/27127/ What Middle Powers Fear from the Trump-Xi Summit #China #DonaldJ #EastAsia #FarEast #Headlines #InternationalRelations #Japan #News #SouthAndSoutheastAsiaAndPacificAreas #TopStories #trump #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations #Vietnam #XiJinping
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China Sees a ‘Giant With a Limp’ as U.S. Drains Weapons on Iran War
A grinding war in I…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #CenterforStrategicandInternationalStudies #China #CommunistPartyofChina #DefenseandMilitaryForces #defensedepartment #DonaldJ #FarEast #greer #hegseth #HuXijin #Internationalrelations #Iran #JamiesonL #Marco #People'sLiberationArmy(China) #pete #rubio #SouthandSoutheastAsiaandPacificAreas #statedepartment #Trump #WangYi #XiJinping
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More in the article by Yaroslava Kiryukhina: How once #indigenous village in #Kamchatka lost its fighting-age men to conflict; most of them were #Koryak and #Itelmen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8n4l8elpgo
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More in the article by Yaroslava Kiryukhina: How once #indigenous village in #Kamchatka lost its fighting-age men to conflict; most of them were #Koryak and #Itelmen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8n4l8elpgo
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Record snow in Russia’s far east blocks building entrances, buries cars https://www.byteseu.com/1728616/ #AgenceFrancePresse #FarEast #Japan #kamchatka #LydmilaMoskvicheva #Moscow #PetropavlovskKamchatsky #reuters #Russia #SnowDrifts #SnowFall #WeatherMonitoringStations
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Russia rejects Christmas truce as US ramps up peace push -- Russian oil prices lowest since full-scale war began -- What we know about Russia’s offensive in Siversk -- [Video/Vlog] What Ukrainians actually think about ceding Donbas to Russia ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/wednesday-december-17-2025/
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From #AnnafromUkraine @[email protected]
MASS PROTESTS HIT RUSSIA: RUSSIANS RISE UP AGAINST THE SYSTEM Vlog 1122: War in #Ukraine
#Russia had to postpone the introduction of the vehicle #recycling fee by a month after the protests in #Siberia and #FarEast. Around 300 workers building a nuclear research facility in #Ulyanovsk region went on strike because they hadn’t been paid.
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Bering Strait Tunnel: Russia’s Post-War New Deal Or Geopolitical Mirage?
Bering Strait Tunnel: Russia’s Post-War New Deal Or Geopolitical Mirage?
Russia might still fund some less ambitious infrastructure projects in its Far East-Arctic region to keep the economy hot after the war ends, help veterans find work, and encourage settlement there.
Trump reacted positively to the proposal by Kirill Dmitriev, chief of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and envoy in ongoing negotiations with the US, to build a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. The idea isn’t new but has recently been revived as a means of physically embodying the New Détente that their leaders aim to achieve if they’re first able to end the Ukrainian Conflict. Given its $8-65 billion cost as estimated by Dmitriev himself, however, this megaproject would have to be profitable if it’s to be built.
Therein lies the problem since Russian-US trade has always been low even before the unprecedented sanctions that were imposed after the start of the special operation. Energy and raw materials comprise the vast majority of Russian exports, but the US doesn’t need them since it already has enough of pretty much everything apart from rare earth minerals. About that, while Russia has some untapped rare earth deposits, their yields could easily be exported to the US by sea in the event of a New Détente.
Two Russian experts recently interviewed by publicly financed TASS are of a similar opinion. According to Dmitry Zavyalov, head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Logistics and dean of the Higher School of Economics faculty at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, China might be interested in this megaproject, but “the scale of the costs, their distribution among the project participants, and geopolitical risks reduce the potential benefits.”
Alexander Firanchuk, a leading researcher at the Presidential Academy’s International Laboratory for Foreign Trade Research, pointed out that “Alaska is cut off from the main US rail network, while Chukotka is thousands of kilometers of permafrost and mountains from the nearest Russian rails. Any ‘saving’ of a couple of days’ travel compared to the sea instantly vanishes against the monstrous costs of building thousands of kilometers of new tracks, bridges, and tunnels in the harshest climates on the planet.”
Nevertheless, the aforesaid infrastructure projects might also be what Dmitriev has in mind, perhaps envisaged as a Russian version of FDR’s “New Deal” for keeping the economy hot and helping veterans find work once the war ends. Putin recently approved high-speed rail projects for connecting Moscow with major cities in European Russia, which could be employed to this end, but the tunnel proposal would help develop and settle the Far East-Arctic region per the vision that he shared in September.
Putin also proposed building a new veteran-led Russian elite last year, and some of its most aspirational members could cut their political teeth by working on these projects and then running in regional elections, after which they might rise to national renown. Among the comparatively less aspirational majority, they might be content to live out their lives in the rural Far East-Arctic region after working on projects there, especially if they were traumatized by the war and struggle to reintegrate into society.
With this insight in mind, the Bering Strait tunnel idea that Dmitriev just revived would actually be quite beneficial to Russia, but not for the reasons that many might have assumed. Even so, the total costs of this megaproject and all the associated infrastructure that would have to be built in the Far East-Arctic region would be enormous and arguably beyond the national budget’s means to fund in full, and foreign investors might not consider any of this to be profitable. The tunnel might thus remain a pipe dream.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
#BeringStraitTunnel #DonaldTrump #FarEast #Geopolitics #Russia #TheArctic #USA
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Bering Strait Tunnel: Russia’s Post-War New Deal Or Geopolitical Mirage?
Bering Strait Tunnel: Russia’s Post-War New Deal Or Geopolitical Mirage?
Russia might still fund some less ambitious infrastructure projects in its Far East-Arctic region to keep the economy hot after the war ends, help veterans find work, and encourage settlement there.
Trump reacted positively to the proposal by Kirill Dmitriev, chief of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and envoy in ongoing negotiations with the US, to build a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. The idea isn’t new but has recently been revived as a means of physically embodying the New Détente that their leaders aim to achieve if they’re first able to end the Ukrainian Conflict. Given its $8-65 billion cost as estimated by Dmitriev himself, however, this megaproject would have to be profitable if it’s to be built.
Therein lies the problem since Russian-US trade has always been low even before the unprecedented sanctions that were imposed after the start of the special operation. Energy and raw materials comprise the vast majority of Russian exports, but the US doesn’t need them since it already has enough of pretty much everything apart from rare earth minerals. About that, while Russia has some untapped rare earth deposits, their yields could easily be exported to the US by sea in the event of a New Détente.
Two Russian experts recently interviewed by publicly financed TASS are of a similar opinion. According to Dmitry Zavyalov, head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Logistics and dean of the Higher School of Economics faculty at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, China might be interested in this megaproject, but “the scale of the costs, their distribution among the project participants, and geopolitical risks reduce the potential benefits.”
Alexander Firanchuk, a leading researcher at the Presidential Academy’s International Laboratory for Foreign Trade Research, pointed out that “Alaska is cut off from the main US rail network, while Chukotka is thousands of kilometers of permafrost and mountains from the nearest Russian rails. Any ‘saving’ of a couple of days’ travel compared to the sea instantly vanishes against the monstrous costs of building thousands of kilometers of new tracks, bridges, and tunnels in the harshest climates on the planet.”
Nevertheless, the aforesaid infrastructure projects might also be what Dmitriev has in mind, perhaps envisaged as a Russian version of FDR’s “New Deal” for keeping the economy hot and helping veterans find work once the war ends. Putin recently approved high-speed rail projects for connecting Moscow with major cities in European Russia, which could be employed to this end, but the tunnel proposal would help develop and settle the Far East-Arctic region per the vision that he shared in September.
Putin also proposed building a new veteran-led Russian elite last year, and some of its most aspirational members could cut their political teeth by working on these projects and then running in regional elections, after which they might rise to national renown. Among the comparatively less aspirational majority, they might be content to live out their lives in the rural Far East-Arctic region after working on projects there, especially if they were traumatized by the war and struggle to reintegrate into society.
With this insight in mind, the Bering Strait tunnel idea that Dmitriev just revived would actually be quite beneficial to Russia, but not for the reasons that many might have assumed. Even so, the total costs of this megaproject and all the associated infrastructure that would have to be built in the Far East-Arctic region would be enormous and arguably beyond the national budget’s means to fund in full, and foreign investors might not consider any of this to be profitable. The tunnel might thus remain a pipe dream.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
#BeringStraitTunnel #DonaldTrump #FarEast #Geopolitics #Russia #TheArctic #USA
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🏞️ Travel Photos Plus: Jiang Ziya in Baoji
https://youtu.be/1FgyHaE4R4ohttps://vakantio.de/xiefuzi-reise-blog/die-wiege-der-chinesischen-kultur
#xian #jiangziya #baoji #confucius #wen #zhoudynasty #travel #chinatrip #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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🏰 Travel Photos Plus: Huaqing Palace in Xi'an
https://youtu.be/w5Cr2mBgzRI
https://vakantio.de/xiefuzi-reise-blog/historische-dramen-im-huaqing-palast#xian #xuanzong #huaqingpalace #yangguifei #chiangkaishek #tangdynasty #travel #chinatrip #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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👤 Reisefotos plus: Terracotta Army in Xi'an - Part 2
https://youtu.be/SJqy1ARGPEs#xian #qinshihuangdi #terrakottaarmee #terrakottakrieger #terracottaarmy #mausoleum #travel #chinatrip #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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⚜️ Reisefotos plus: Mausoleum Qin Shihuangdi in Xi'an - Part 1
https://youtu.be/6_WwZtsmSgk#xian #qinshihuangdi #terrakottaarmee #terrakottakrieger #terracottaarmy #mausoleum #travel #chinatrip #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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👑 Reisefotos plus: Maoling + Zhaoling in Xi'an
https://youtu.be/lRCdAhdCULg#xian #handynasty #maoling #wu #huoqubing #tangdynasty #zhaoling #taizong #travel #chinatrip #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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⛲ Reisefotos plus: Datang Everbright City in Xi'an
https://youtu.be/B6DHpDmda6s#xian #datang #tangdynasty #giantwildgoosepagoda #xuanzang #travel #chinatrip #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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💀 Reisefotos plus: Banpo Museum in Xi'an
https://youtu.be/BHx7KuQzZk4#xian #banpo #chinatrip #travel #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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📜 Reisefotos plus: Stelenmuseum in Xi'an
https://youtu.be/F2_jPVBToO4#xian #beilin #chinatrip #travel #explorechina #discoverchina #visitchina #amazingchina #beautifulchina #mychina #yourchina #china #fareast #fernost
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Putin’s Master Plan For The Russian Arctic And Far East Will Speed Up The Global South’s Rise
Putin’s Master Plan For The Russian Arctic And Far East Will Speed Up The Global South’s Rise
The end result might be the world’s bifurcation into the US-led “Global West” and the Chinese-led Global South.
Putin elaborated on his master plan for the Russian Arctic and Far East during his keynote speech at this year’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week. This piece will summarize what he shared and analyse it in the emerging geostrategic context. To begin with, he envisages these regions serving as industrial, logistics, and tech hubs due to their location and resources. Raw materials will fuel industry; rivers and new railways, seaports, and airports will facilitate logistics; and rare earths will drive tech.
Relevant coastal facilities will be constructed in the future, which might be powered by new hydroelectric plants, and these will be connected to one another and hinterland areas (resource deposits and settlements) by an integrated logistics system. More bridges will be built to China and North Korea too. Existing preferential policies for businesses in some areas and for residents under some conditions will be expanded throughout both regions to stimulate investment and increase the population there.
Reducing population outflow is a priority, as is encouraging the inflow of Russians from elsewhere, which more enterprises can assist with upon the state streamlining last year’s policy of reimbursing them with tax deductions for continuing to build social infrastructure for their employees in remote areas. The attendant public-private partnership that Putin envisages strengthening can therefore accelerate regional socio-economic development per his master plan for the Arctic and Far East.
The emerging geostrategic context will help achieve these goals. The centre of the global economy has shifted from Europe to Asia, and with it, so too has Russia’s overall focus. China, India, and ASEAN (with Indonesia at its core) are considered Russia’s top partners in this regard. The latest updates are that Russia just clinched a long-negotiated deal over the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline; Putin plans to visit India by year’s end; and Russia clinched a strategic partnership deal with Indonesia earlier this summer.
Investments in the Transarctic Corridor (the Northern Sea Route plus planned rail-riparian connectivity to there from Siberia and the Far East) and the Eastern Polygon (the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Mainland railway) will help Russia tap into these near-limitless market opportunities. It would also ideally benefit from trade with and investments from the US, EU, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, but these pillars of the “Global West” decided to sanction Russia as punishment for its special operation.
That was counterproductive since China will now likely play an even more outsized role in the Arctic and Far East’s development, especially as regards resource extraction, thus turbocharging its superpower trajectory and hastening their demise. India and Indonesia can help Russia preemptively avert potentially disproportionate dependence on China, which serves all three’s interests, while the “Global West” will continue harming its own interests by eschewing any role in Russia’s geo-economic balancing act.
Absent a policy reversal, even if only in part and from just some of the “Global West” like nearby Japan and South Korea, the implementation of Putin’s master plan for the Arctic and Far East will provide a powerful impetus to BRICS’ and the SCO’s rise as their members seek to transform global governance. China will lead the way while Russia, India, and Indonesia will play important supportive roles. The end result might be the world’s bifurcation into the US-led “Global West” and the Chinese-led Global South.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
7 Courses in 1 – Diploma in Business Management
#ASEAN #China #EasternEconomicForum #FarEast #Geopolitics #GlobalSouth #Indonesia #NorthKorea #Russia #Siberia #TheArctic
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Putin’s Master Plan For The Russian Arctic And Far East Will Speed Up The Global South’s Rise
Putin’s Master Plan For The Russian Arctic And Far East Will Speed Up The Global South’s Rise
The end result might be the world’s bifurcation into the US-led “Global West” and the Chinese-led Global South.
Putin elaborated on his master plan for the Russian Arctic and Far East during his keynote speech at this year’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week. This piece will summarize what he shared and analyse it in the emerging geostrategic context. To begin with, he envisages these regions serving as industrial, logistics, and tech hubs due to their location and resources. Raw materials will fuel industry; rivers and new railways, seaports, and airports will facilitate logistics; and rare earths will drive tech.
Relevant coastal facilities will be constructed in the future, which might be powered by new hydroelectric plants, and these will be connected to one another and hinterland areas (resource deposits and settlements) by an integrated logistics system. More bridges will be built to China and North Korea too. Existing preferential policies for businesses in some areas and for residents under some conditions will be expanded throughout both regions to stimulate investment and increase the population there.
Reducing population outflow is a priority, as is encouraging the inflow of Russians from elsewhere, which more enterprises can assist with upon the state streamlining last year’s policy of reimbursing them with tax deductions for continuing to build social infrastructure for their employees in remote areas. The attendant public-private partnership that Putin envisages strengthening can therefore accelerate regional socio-economic development per his master plan for the Arctic and Far East.
The emerging geostrategic context will help achieve these goals. The centre of the global economy has shifted from Europe to Asia, and with it, so too has Russia’s overall focus. China, India, and ASEAN (with Indonesia at its core) are considered Russia’s top partners in this regard. The latest updates are that Russia just clinched a long-negotiated deal over the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline; Putin plans to visit India by year’s end; and Russia clinched a strategic partnership deal with Indonesia earlier this summer.
Investments in the Transarctic Corridor (the Northern Sea Route plus planned rail-riparian connectivity to there from Siberia and the Far East) and the Eastern Polygon (the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Mainland railway) will help Russia tap into these near-limitless market opportunities. It would also ideally benefit from trade with and investments from the US, EU, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, but these pillars of the “Global West” decided to sanction Russia as punishment for its special operation.
That was counterproductive since China will now likely play an even more outsized role in the Arctic and Far East’s development, especially as regards resource extraction, thus turbocharging its superpower trajectory and hastening their demise. India and Indonesia can help Russia preemptively avert potentially disproportionate dependence on China, which serves all three’s interests, while the “Global West” will continue harming its own interests by eschewing any role in Russia’s geo-economic balancing act.
Absent a policy reversal, even if only in part and from just some of the “Global West” like nearby Japan and South Korea, the implementation of Putin’s master plan for the Arctic and Far East will provide a powerful impetus to BRICS’ and the SCO’s rise as their members seek to transform global governance. China will lead the way while Russia, India, and Indonesia will play important supportive roles. The end result might be the world’s bifurcation into the US-led “Global West” and the Chinese-led Global South.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
7 Courses in 1 – Diploma in Business Management
#ASEAN #China #EasternEconomicForum #FarEast #Geopolitics #GlobalSouth #Indonesia #NorthKorea #Russia #Siberia #TheArctic
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-13-2025/
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-13-2025/
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-13-2025/
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-13-2025/
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Why can’t the West match Russia’s ammunition production? — Juicy target: Ukraine says it struck Russian electronics plant in Moscow — Ukrainian forces ‘gradually pushing back’ Russian troops from Sumy Oblast — Russia ‘lying to Trump,’ using peace talks to stall US sanctions … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-13-2025/