Where China meets Russia | The New Silk Road | Full Episode

[Music] Russia and China two major powers that are being drawn closer by the belt and road initiative I'll explore the spectacular wealth that's been created at the border of these two countries Babel the Seattle control my mom I'll uncover the history of Russians in China not boiling at how you would hate Thomas you're not Hamid as usual no you talk well over Harvey Nagar in June and I'll meet the latest friendship ambassadors of the belt and rode a Belton Road initiative linking China and Russia has sparked celebration and concern rival powers Russia and China Russia and with China Russia or China in my journey along the road to Russia I'll visit China's border cities with Russia this is higher City as Linton Gold 2015 - evolve ad shoot off watch eat a fire I'll discover the splendors Mongolia with its untapped riches mysterious news Becca Stan - it's stunning cities and I'll explore the Kremlin and the power it wheels this is my journey through one of China's key economic corridors upon its belton Road [Music] tonight's topic is about the triangular relations between the US China and Russia the world's great powers so my first question is what is the state of this trilateral relationship are we heading toward conflict so clearly Russia and China the strategic relationship has evolved chef and there's real security cooperation going on there's arms sales from Russia to China there's military joint exercises I don't want to overstate that but there is an idea about trying to cooperate globally to preclude the United States from gaining global hegemony in the last year much of the focus on international relations worldwide has been on a us-china trade war 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's an important relationship to watch the two countries increasing Alliance 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 well here's a good place to start the world's largest matroyshka doll square replete with domes dolls and other designer kish this is a disney fide russia this is man jolie in northeast china a border zone where russia mongolia and china meet what's so amazing about this place is how china so openly advertises its russian links china has many friends but i haven't seen the chinese government building a pakistan town or an italian town to celebrate its bilateral relations this place is absolutely one of a kind and a testament to chinese russian ties the doll square is empty because it's freezing winter but make no mistake man jolie is a busy town it's China's busiest land port 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 percent in 2018 reaching a record turnover of 108 billion US dollars man Jolie 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 this is the Russian China trade hub but man Jolie's relationship with Russia isn't all about dollars and cents it's also about friendship and goodwill between neighboring cities and states and man julie has come up with new ways to promote those friendships to evade issues of $40 Belgium a leader said ha ha the pageant has a strategic objective it's to promote China's friendship with Russia and shared neighbor Mongolia the China Mongolia Russia economic corridor is one of six major corridors on the belt and road master plan mu qualities to the photon - she gets all the hype of holding a holding a pizza patch now hold on Tina 20 min to go through you know he can't who each other if Johnny you don't take a phone van full of the food Rama Chandra Bundy her to go quality or neutral and I should had a good immune to Tristana hi Charlie dandy John Locke and take a photo in Pocket hot as you go through taunting me and you know talking to him in a yoga EJ my injure is one of the men in charge of organizing this cross-border extravaganza so what is this beauty pageant have to do with the Pelton Road initiative Montelena teacher una caja de eluded chunk tantrum matrilineal to go to montego's - Aditya Mineo mojitos rescission with Japan TIG Truman Doctrine hijo de Lune ha ha ho Donna mania hungry woman Tigger Pawlenty - hey hon - no diggity rule to motor coordination Sanjana Konstantin logic means agenda tick Votto Leo Leo dirty Tom cotton eg Tatum Oh her cigarette ik sound formula theatrical to say too much on cottage food article Jing Zhi hua to govern wash you can't acknowledge any good photo for the organizers to Adonis is nodding at Roman Sun God Aten fool to Panda tanzanite or Co Tacoma Tony Newton for teaching gig GT Jumba say are nice onions rule your honor hollenberg really a tada - tada the charm offensive is effective the event is covered by more than a hundred media outlets in the three countries how do you not win hearts and minds with this these girls are walking around in so little clothing and temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius I can do it [Music] [Music] [Music] this must be the toughest weather conditions any beauty pageant participant has to endure anywhere in the world sahaja yoga cannot become law darn woman Camille country at Otranto a Pocoyo dear to me on the Asiatic worker Horace Warrick Mia de tigre university segregation bar Omega reentry made king t'chaka semi those Putin Putin appeal su vs. Athena Shiho Macondo tossers tomorrow leader John demain country Otto de llamada Johnny Drama D na want a song goddess Athena encounters to human UFOs remove hiya show me Russia Eva so he may couldn't do me the pew handed over yeah rushon China relations are all smiles now mostly but there was a time when relations weren't so rosy in the early 1950s Russian and Chinese leaders dreamed of fashioning a world of communism but by the late 60s the two communist Giants had entered into such a fierce battle for supremacy that they became bitter enemies they even threatened to use nuclear weapons on each other [Music] thousands of Muscovites demonstrate outside the Chinese Embassy in Moscow the confrontation across the asuri river of the far eastern frontier between the two countries has provoked a king-size 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 with the breakup of the Soviet Union the border dispute was also scaled down in 1991 the two countries signed a pact demarcating their borders and today all bitterness from the past is hardly ever discussed nowadays the dialogue revolves around excellent bilateral relations in 2017 Putin presented C with Russia's highest state award in 2018 she handed Putin a large golden medal of friendship declaring the Russian leader his best most intimate friendship the two leaders have met over 30 times since 2013 in addition to excellent trade ties China and Russia support each other on a wide variety of foreign policy issues including the Venezuela crisis North Korea's nuclear program and the Iran nuclear deal [Music] whatever the strategic reasons may be for the blossoming friendship it's made Mon Jolie a boomtown with serious investment pouring into the wild west frontier town of the Chinese border sino-russian trade is taking off and I'm off to meet a tycoon raking it in from the sino Russian trade you might find it surprising but this is one of the biggest and most profitable businesses in Mongolia Russia and China trade in many things oil timber electronics you name it but it's humble vegetables that are moving fastest the reason has to do with politics in 2014 Russia cut ties with its fruits and veggies suppliers from the European Union and US a retaliation against sanctions over the Ukraine issue Russia has to buy its fruits and veggies elsewhere that was when Putin turned to his old comrade in China this is probably the most vegetables I've seen in my life all of this is being sent to the Russian city of Ur cuts 1,500 kilometers away four years ago this journey would have taken seven days on the road but today that travel time has been cut in half because of all the new roads that have been built due to the belt and Road initiative Chinese veggies are moving faster than ever according to Russian government statistics Russia buys 1 billion US dollars worth of veggies and 300 million u.s. dollars worth of citrus fruits from China annually this company alone Sen fool autistics exports 50 million dollars worth of fruit and veggies to Russia a year in 2018 their export volume to Russia grew 13% compared to the previous year moong Lynn is the woman in charge she moved to Montreux Li 25 years ago and mung Lin has done very well Wow there are a lot of awards here congratulations earlier today I was able to check out your company and I'll have to say the place looked very busy can you tell me a little bit about the history of your business woman's here should say I'm should say down singing yeah woman's a sound although shooting who lets you shoot at home sure you know fancy and gallucci the pants 802 you don't go to court show the jock I think she you know what might relieve he need us is here mmm delicious did you can t be a column for you hon I don't know my daughter singer european don't know she was oceans had the hotel woman Tony I tell me are you in catch-22 taeho sure to Joe she talks a national issue Shikoku does it out down low she doesn't know me yeah sure good season for I want easier to haha do you want it he goes well then you're gonna kind of be partying will have to be joking Gaussian kernels him her charm Wow oh sure thank you you were 21 years old when you first came to Montreux Lee what was it that brought you here well newsroom features on can be more room to like - oh like kinda head to toe she can put Ohio James you know those that I miss out no you go to large born yet Wow 25 years huh time flies what was my Julie like back then mandarine Constitution Eco p.m. three shots in but you're the taller wine sounds okay me horny goon the Mongols are shot I don't know some say that I call up a shiny or since I wore my Nevada trigger fit on fire only the client oh sure that's very easy to do also a mojito Manzoni attorney John Shockley diode Jennifer gamba woman T who also change auto repair with our Omega cont GMO fish I own Indian Ocean to make consumption rates or cooking and it's all thanks to Russia China ties huh sipping wine deleting that title this year dose withdraw pillow my mom portraiture Schwartz or do yoga Syria we hear a lot about the belt and Road initiative how has it impacted your business you're later you know you Hopa tone woman's in cell phone a show tune swoosh I'm sure she repeats here Colombian complaints you know the whole song Qian Zhang is she young I'm Sheena Caetano her daughter's you know pania our - what - here Pandiyan alone is your time being come from being quite easier than I thought Ellucian door oh sure even he got a weenie he got a pseudo Nigel John Zarrella helpful or means him but I'm sorry she sees him Kim so beautifully it's here with my own eyes yourself my mom walk on that phone you know but if are a whole second dulce de Lucia back singleton Georgia - didn't even come wait ain't no wouldn't even do make sure the sugar don't you call trees here that when we're together heard or see them please don't let's recall mangoes once an exotic rarity across the border can now be bought in Russian supermarkets even in Siberia these foreign fruits are now much more accessible thanks to the new trade links just another example of how China's Silk Road is changing the world to your successful partnership with Russia thank you you're all consistent [Music] this is the Boomtown that is man Jolie a Chinese city with an obvious Russian feel to it everywhere you turn there's a good reason why man Jolie is the poster city for exciting developments in sino-russian trade the thriving tempo of cross-border trade is best felt here at the Mont Jolie trade center it's the city's official cross-border trade zone it's not even 9:00 a.m. and already a long queue has formed outside they're here for one thing mainly wheat flour [Music] bags and bags of the stuff fly off the shelves here bound for shops and restaurants across the city it's a flower frenzy driven not by traders but by very entrepreneurial towns folk so this morning there was a long line of people waiting to get in here mmm can you tell me what that was about mmm I said yeah I'm in kind of the mujahideen milord opinion made him that I wrote you each end was up he said oh that hammock are you - moment ever since it I'm a miracle with a shiny made him passing like a local DeNiro come on the PME buy something another artists attorney mayor Maggie woman the song there Thomas Virginia for thee to do a question hmm and this happens on a daily basis then come on makin a fool me hello each Andrea bread is a must-have in this part of China flower may be the star product but there's also trade in candies chocolates honey skincare cooking oil and all kinds of Russian products imaginable the man Jolie trade center isn't just any other Russian departmental store for the local government it's a shining example of how both sides of the border have plenty to gain from the belt and Road initiative searching for something search on our 2001 deserve a shellfish a there were moments in emergencies Camille surreal they're seeing something team what is important who had a hundred in each other the artists to use of the superseded Allah the motivation UTP indigenous to your conservation making do the song he voted Arizona's overnight our Golia maple sugar worship residents a question crush on Obama Guruji - Thomas visibility on Tamia a potion monger karmayoga burrito Curtis key to restrict a skill on a stove is it prodigious in the moment Ocean Terrace open it more soft winds Patricia this trade zone is an example of some of the unique businesses that have come up on the New Silk Road man Jolie has a special role on China's belt and Road global economic master plan and here's why China has identified six economic corridors on the belt and Road initiative the China Mongolia Russia economic corridor is one of these six corridors and one that is accelerating particularly quickly [Music] pooja de la ville de tolly decision Sumatra chandos go dissin construct are a less energy gamma Y upon en sciatic doot da doot open DF ami Angus was it a pseudo decision otra vez una y para uma humidor eco Ching go to father Tom opened a door in Tampa Bay Tony bomb - listen telugu sudha Doble energy body odor yep alcohol solutions hello Polly on the dishes on chicken Tommy Karuma Tony the Otunga motto dignity of initiative America man Tony the change in English with al-haddad Ozzy good bond to the road and rail connections between the two countries are especially timely given China's less than Rosie trade ties with the United States currently but border towns like Mon Jolie are richer for it not just from trade look at what it's done to the city's nightlife there are many Russian restaurants in Mont Jolie let's go check this one out oh hello hi received a proposal veteran Roebuck Aditya thank you oh my goodness look at that bear Sergio Cucho transgender songwriter loser [Music] wait I don't look will you ships I'm Cheung oh dude celeb don't boats on my lender christina is the maitre d of the Lubell in a dive that's popular among out-of-towners the food is just part of the attraction for many Chinese visiting the city this could be their first taste of Russian culture this is quite the grand room you've prepared for us I feel like a king in here thank you so much she the woman yo Sharon Korean guys no doubt or look super fun way your Mandarin is quite good what what made you want to study Chinese well I don't go inland Iyanla say don't go - hey ba de you have many friends from Russia who want to work here shoulda wore your condo - momentum and ocean lighter Samba control is the salary higher here compared to Russia sure that should in wish inside a lucid gene teaching computer how so it's a drum go Gao LAN sempai sorry woman doll I don't what do you have many Russians applying to work at your restaurant Honda Honda 15 feet under one Argentinian hamdullah dragoons Oh family got Nana and gently to Mohsen Attia ha logic Yoda nobody uses a token go ladies and whatever Gong Wu ji wen don't work so what's the process of hiring a Russian tv-channel messenger um so she can come in early oh yeah she's a shooting party engineering teacher 17 feet on barely see co-teaching and the Italian ooh-la-la it is a hot Sun - uh-huh how things have changed 30 years ago people on this side of the border wanted to go Wes now Russians are wanting to come East it really shows how far China has come my tripping man chole is coming to an end but there's lots more to discover about the sino-russian relation and for that I'll be headed to Harbin the music city of China [Music] [Music] this is Harb in a city with deep-rooted Russian connections at harbins main street the city's Russian flavor is hard to miss [Music] walking along the street you find dozens of Russian souvenir shops and restaurants like this Russian restaurant right here famous for its bread look at all these people queuing up this is the only place in China that I've ever seen people in line for bread and no it's not some new hipster fad families in Harbin have been bread eaters for more than a hundred years Russian flavor extends to the city's urban landscape stunning examples of Art Deco and neo-renaissance architecture from the 1920s and 1930s lined the Main Street why do we see so much Russian and European influence here in Harbin shi jian de vie by Giovanni inertia ha Lulla Lulla c'est un dome cartoon wars early autumn don't you watch her Luna Chewbacca whadda you mean ah titled a gest watching beyond recognition cyanotic tongue sha wanna go Harvey nachos room malashri vada see MA um part in Parma Rita come daughter Serena Nepal area hey yo yo hey thomna thomna sooner you toggle omaha vinegar and chili cheesy burger give me Nutella poly Ya Ya chosen you Kushina yeah Tara could he make the changes Tiana woman harvey new tatiana - sha la la machine de pollo occurred apparently the receive on the chain rule so infernal Harvey nah sure oh me - muah she found gentle three Tour de Letran she waits can go up to move Anna your party aren't you saying huh the old name for Harbin is Manchuria a city steeped in history it had been governed by three different powers the Russians the Japanese and the Chinese at the turn of the 19th century it was an industrial powerhouse with a thriving economy which funded these spectacular buildings Wow this church is magnificent can you tell me how old it is Sugiyama he by Giovanni in Chihuahua Gugu d'ya mean George little harbin no Mahamaya cheesy um yo ho toh soona puncture the tongue Funai to tie each one in China and you shoot yellow you go to a movie look what switching the distribute food chain to Tata - sure sure Sofia carbon was an expat paradise with people from over 50 different nationalities who formed sixty percent of the city's population the city museum has recreated visuals of what the city looked like at the time and boy it looks nothing like China in the 1910s and 20s Harbin hosted the largest Russian population outside of the state of Russia their influence on the Chinese people remain till this day will Nahar being the Chi knowledgeable Yana Harbin is your Jimmy a ball good coffee Chihuahua ha ha when the Harvey initial one I couldn't somewhat that she talks really yeah ha ha I already got older little serious here Ben yeah hi oh wait you already do so I do that what if you what so you woman the Harvey's your company King John ya na ho she who engage the Russians left much more than bread ballet and buildings behind Harbin also inherited a major manufacturing base which was built by the Russians the Russians and Chinese draw on the legacy of that long friendship they work together in furthering many mutual goals like in education and science this is the Heilong Jiang Institute of high-tech research here Russian and Chinese scientists work together on a thermal engineering project an illusion on inside Damiano and icons one ocean rod to insurance office today ptosis one yeah West Mercia reported National Institute a translator aids communication but language is hardly a barrier when causes are aligned to our Chikara through a little fool the children I didn't hear what they are can harm like I deliver critical critical work for the Russians unlike many of their Western counterparts there's none of that paranoia associated with Chinese tech research there's even a bilateral plan for Russia and China to jointly develop their artificial intelligence capabilities to catch any feelin kaho Newtonian particle leaders reassure with a big swing with your attention tired to walk wise if I'm not reading the ego target and reality or ChaCha Tomo curricula yomo yomo yomo yomo who else should I leave it all the panacea human too much more money towards that of Honor the more you should know this partnership has grown and it's grown far beyond industrial cooperation there's an extensive infrastructure designed to foster cooperation up and down the line from summits at the very top to commissions between governments and down to networks closer to people's hearts and minds in education nowadays every russian university or research center in every region and city has a sister institute in china neither Russia nor China has a similar arrangement with any other country in the world I'm here today to meet some students who have benefited from these excellent bilateral ties all my new Russian friends are here on some form of Chinese government scholarship so Adele why did you choose to come study here in China because my bachelor degree also was about Chinese languages and I choose China because China give us scholarships because now many Russian Chinese companies they have like relations and then sell buy something to each other so it's studying Chinese popular amongst your friends back in Russia and now the relationship between China and Russia is very good and it's getting better and better so now a lot of Russians Russian people we don't just study English but we also started to study Chinese in schools so a lot of Russians go to China to get their bachelor's degree master's degree in China right now and it's easier for us to get Chinese scholarship rather than for example American or European countries scholarship so max what is your experience been like here in China every foreigner who came to China will on this journey will understand that it's a lot of cultural shocks like style of communication is different than in other countries and also languages and relationships between people Quincy as we see here in China but I think it's a good choice and what are your plans after you graduate I really want to go to Shanghai because I have been there for six times and they really love that city so what about the rest of you are your long-term plans to remain here in China [Music] [Applause] [Music] I think thank you very much this is okay all right well we got our local eats here say this is definitely a happening spot I mean do you guys have anything like this in Russia no I don't have this in Russia like but I can't be challenged the first step and they saw this night market I was like wow Chen is very interested at life so you can bet anything yeah and well I'm a student so I don't have a lot of money so it's actually very good for me to go here and just buy some clothes I don't know anything I want this is really cool oh that's very interesting well since you're student here why don't you you should be the one eating now all of you earlier mentioned that you guys want to live and work in China do business here I'm curious to know what is it like to do business in China in comparison to what it might be like in Russia from Goha we opened OG with title coupons will be a loss to koala this one fine departure water also don't find in your transitions or your drink water guys should even do well I have to ask the mandatory Bri question and maybe I'll ask you then max alright um do you feel that your future opportunities are directly linked to the success of Bri I think with the rapid development of a world economy and an international trade one belt one wrote actually gonna help all the small businesses and small companies to give all of these companies good opportunity to work I think it's the good things for all foreigners who live in China right now you know sounds like everyone feels it's a very favorable thing yeah all right well enjoy your my journey on China's new Silk Road has brought me to Harbin the Music City the title is an official one conferred by the United Nations in 2010 no less it's also a title Harbin truly deserves [Music] the locals are diehard fans of Russian classical music and the love affair goes way back around the 1900s Harbin was nicknamed the st. Petersburg of the east it was home to a rich cultural scene including China's first Symphony Orchestra made up of mostly Russian musicians harbin had as many as 30 music schools where many prominent international musicians trained the foreigners left during Second World War but the Chinese who remained certainly didn't let the music fade out in 2016 Harbin unveiled its tribute to their pedigreed musical heritage an opera house it costs five hundred and sixty million u.s. dollars for a city so passionate about the arts they consider it money well spent the Opera House isn't harbins only big-ticket investment in the arts this is its other a conservatory built in the neoclassical style costing a cool 116 million u.s. dollars isn't this place spectacular I feel like I'm in a Russian palace inside you'll find the softer aspect of the belt and Road initiative what China likes to call people-to-people bonds for most classes in this conservatory the teacher-student ratio is 1 to 1 when Jana Bullock articulate bullet push nice tree he II octavo vision probably care so that Iranian digger you have to talk fast robot you're very tiny gender you know sun protection is and they eat your lead when you see it turning for with Holly what you think it's so so always there is nothing to improve its like process for life what it is I'm just worried that you know like sounds it high in you - Mahalo to you whey protein Zuma your shoe the shoe so internal feed on cases no weight loss its yeah you so good well yeah Wow hippies pyramid walking shoes you don't feed on phoom phoom jutsu Tai Chi is not can you some change on and also do serving at all so in the feet on earth can you fit on home this school opened in 2016 under the banner of the belt and Road initiative the st. Petersburg Conservatory of Music is the school's official partner and so are aplenty and bomb bomb bomb [Music] why did you choose to move to Harbin it was like somebody called Mia do you want to go to China where Harbin I opened map yes why not because her bein actually really connected to Russian history of course after Revolution in 1917 lots of Russian people moved to Harbin so we are so movies Russia knows about our being and of course it's the good challenge any thoughts on the belt road initiatives I think actually it's a good initiative because right now with all those globalization process when every country has to communicate to others and this is way to help to each other like for example all China right now can help Russia with some technological process we can help China with the musical ideas because anyway most of Chinese students go to Russia they study in Russia they get Russian music widest a Russian musical soul and then they return to China [Music] harbin owes its music city roots to its cosmopolitan origins something that wouldn't have happened without the railway in 1898 Harbin was the administrative hub for the China Eastern Railway which connected Moscow China and Vladivostok in a way the China Eastern Railway was a precursor to the belt and Road initiative Harbin was once a small village until the building of the railway when it became an international City this railway museum here shows the history this is what Harbin looked like in the early 1900s wars were fought over this railway in control of Harbin the Russians who controlled it lost it to the Japanese in 1935 the Chinese later took it back and today Harbin is a main port of call along the trans-siberian railway linking Beijing to Moscow with the belt and road initiative there are even bigger plans to link Harbin to Central Asia and Russia just like how the old railway turned Harbin into a cosmopolitan city the new railway is expected to bring equally monumental changes to wherever its tracks run crossing exciting new frontiers and creating new opportunities for development over the next few installments in this series I'll be visiting other major points on the Belton road connecting China to Russia in Mongolia the Belton Road is facilitating a resource boom in the country but Mongolians are seriously concerned about the impact of the new Silk Road on the environment and on the ancient traditions of its people in Uzbekistan another key node on the China Russia economic corridor the ancient Silk Road cities are undergoing a revival as new plans are unveiled to plug them into the modern Silk Road highway and my final destination in the weeks ahead is Russia with political problems mounting between Russia and the US and China in the u.s. the Kremlin and Beijing are drawing closer with important consequences for the global geopolitical order my stay in China's border cities has shown me that the Chinese Russian relationship runs deep whether it's in history and culture for science technology and education this relationship will have a huge impact on the countries between here and Russia and I'll be visiting those countries in Mongolia and Central Asia in the weeks ahead should the world fear a Russian China collusion or should it welcome a Russian China alliance whatever your views are on this there is no question that the two powers are drawing closer bound by new roads bridges and railways on a new Silk Road that will soon reach the heart of the Kremlin [Music]

Channel: CNA

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Length: 47min 34sec (2854 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 30 2019

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[u/MakeMoneyNotWar]

Through BRI, Chinese bordertowns and cities and experiencing boom times through trade with Russia. What's particularly interesting is a influx of Russians working in China because salaries are 2x to 3x higher in China than in Russia.