Friendship Between Putin And Xi Becomes Strained As Economies Falter

They have met more than a dozen times and stood shoulder to shoulder during Thursday’s military parade here.

 But the once-vaunted relationship between the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and Russia’s leader,Vladimir V. Putin, has come under strain as the economies of their countries have faltered.

Two landmark energy deals signed last year for Russian natural gas to flow to China have made little progress and were barely mentioned when the two men met for talks after watching the show of weapons Thursday on Tiananmen Square.

The bilateral trade that was predicted to amount to more than $100 billion this year instead reached only about $30 billion in the first six months, largely because of a reduced Chinese demand for Russian oil.

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What Will Putin Say At UN?

On September 2, Russia chairs the UN Security Council to supervise the work of the body for a whole month.

 At the end of the month, a special meeting will be conducted to discuss the problems of the Middle East and North Africa.

In September, the United Nations will discuss issues of preserving peace and showing resistance to terrorist groups.

Strangely enough, the Ukrainian crisis is not on the agenda.

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Putin's Agenda? Dump The Dollar

Over the past week it was revealed that China is gradually dumping billions of dollars in US treasuries.

Truth be told though, China isn’t the only country interested in unhinging itself from the dollar system. The global currency war has begun in earnest, and now Russia is getting in on the action.

Putin recently announced that he was drafting a bill that would remove the dollar and the euro from trade agreements between Russia’s closest trading partners in the CIS.

The CIS is a regional association of former Soviet States, which includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan.

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Russia Launches Own Jade Helm As China Pushes Pentagon 

One story after another – the global war build-up continues. If you are not paying attention then you’ll be forced to once our suicidal leaders cross the threshold and plunge us into the abyss of war.

Just now the Moscow times is reporting that a Russia is deploying their own JADE HELM level exercises – Immediately after NATO wrapped their own version.

12,000 Russian soldiers and 250 aircraft are taking part in the Air defense exercises in the Ural Mountains and western Siberia.

But that is only the beginning – in September an even larger Russian Military drill is scheduled to take place called “Tsentr-2015.”

International tensions have never been higher with Russia – and now China is challenging the Pentagon.

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