>>46222
To a degree they are, Russia does have their own technology industry though, it would hurt but it's not a death blow.

The advantage Russia has over China is that it's largely energy and resource independent. Russia doesn't even need to import energy whereas China is having trouble powering homes and factories without sanctions or a naval blockade. Likewise, China require a huge amount of Iron ore for her economy. Almost half of the world's iron goes to China and almost half of the world's coal does too.

True, they probably don't care. But then China doesn't either. Though in this case I almost think Russia may have the potential to care less than China, because China politically has to grow to survive, that's what gives the CCP her mandate.

The west only really depends on China for low level manufacturing and rare Earth metals, much of the manufacturing is being redirected to India, Vietnam and Bangladesh anyway and the rare Earth metals can be processed by many western nations, they just choose not too as it's not economically viable for them at the moment, but it would be if China stopped making it.

I don't see China ever voluntarily joining China, CCP Chinese students study all over the world and it didn't change their beliefs, public sentiment towards CCP China in China is only getting worse and China has been separate from China for so long now that many people in China no longer see themselves as Chinese, they see themselves as Taiwanese. There is far too much of a cultural divide now. They have also seen what happened in Hong Kong, so that does not help...

>>46221
It would heavily impact their trade balance considering almost half their exports go to the EU but they produce enough of their own food, energy and raw materials and have a decent enough industry so it would not kill them. Probably.


Ohh and they have also built up the 4th largest reserve of foreign currency and gold in the world.