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The issue is that Europe buys their energy from Russia.

China's interest in a relationship with Russia is solely predicated on what it can do for China. Same for everyone else, I guess.

But it leads to the question, what _can_ more trading with Russia do, that China can't get elsewhere?

Wow the world's manufacturing plant wonders what it can get out of having Russia be an exclusive customer.

No way that can't backfire on the US! I swear a lot of arguments completely ignore how willing China is to put down the West.

Russia does not earn all of its money in Europe, but it does most of its profit. There is a reason it engages in these multi-decade influence campaigns in Europe: the Chinese don't overpay nearly as readily because they can't.