Name: Where China meets Russia | The New Silk Road | Full Episode
Uploaded: 2019-11-14T10:59:11.000Z
Duration: 47 min 35 s
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00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,560 Russia and China.

Two major powers that are being drawn closer

that's been created at the border of these two countries.

I'll uncover the history of Russians in China.

And I'll meet the latest Friendship Ambassadors of the Belt and Road.

A Belt and Road Initiative linking China and Russia

I will visit China's border cities with Russia.

I will discover the splendours of Mongolia with its untapped riches,

mysterious Uzbekistan through its stunning cities,

and I will explore the Kremlin and the power it wields.

This is my journey through one of China's key economic corridors

In the last year, much of the focus on international relations worldwide

One upshot from that is renewed attention on one of the world's oldest

and most chequered bilateral relationships.

I've been researching Sino-Russian relations,

and I've become convinced that it is an important relationship to watch.

is making American and some European leaders uncomfortable.

But is a China-Russia partnership so terrifying to begin with?

Where do we begin unpacking this bilateral relationship

that has more layers than a Russian doll?

the world's largest Matryoshka Doll Square,

replete with domes, dolls, and other designer kitsch.

A border zone where Russia, Mongolia and China meet.

is how China so openly advertises its Russian links.

but I haven't seen the Chinese government

building a Pakistan town or an Italian town

The Doll Square is empty because it's freezing winter.

But make no mistake, Manzhouli is a busy town.

and it is the main rail gateway to Russia.

65% of all import-export trade runs along these tracks.

And these tracks are now busier than ever.

Trade between Russia and China soared by nearly 25% in 2018,

reaching a record turnover of US$108 billion.

Manzhouli is also a special cross-border trade zone,

and has all sorts of facilities for logistics, customs, processing,

exhibition, trading, supply chain finance, and so on.

But Manzhouli's relationship with Russia isn't all about dollars and cents.

And Manzhouli has come up with new ways to promote those friendships.

It's to promote China's friendship with Russia,

The China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor

is one of six major corridors on the Belt and Road masterplan.

Ma Ying Zhe is one of the men in charge of organising

So what does this beauty pageant have to do with the Belt and Road Initiative?

The event is covered by more than a hundred media outlets

How do you not win hearts and minds with this?

These girls are walking around in so little clothing

in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius.

This must be the toughest weather conditions

any beauty pageant participant has to endure, anywhere in the world!

Russian-China relations are all smiles now, mostly.

But there was a time when relations weren't so rosy.

Russian and Chinese leaders dreamed of fashioning a world of Communism.

the two Communist giants had entered into such a fierce battle for supremacy

They even threatened to use nuclear weapons on each other.

Thousands of Muscovites demonstrate outside the Chinese embassy in Moscow.

The confrontation across the Ussuri River

at the Far Eastern frontier between the two countries

has provoked a king-sized outburst of propaganda from both sides.

The Russians claim that over 40 of their border guards have lost their lives.

The most serious development has been the Russian threat

to escalate the whole thing into a full scale conflict,

to initiate an offensive with nuclear weapons.

the two countries signed a pact demarcating their borders.

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