Snafus mar Russia and China's marriage of convenience

China’s burgeoning investment in Russia’s infrastructure is bolstering cross-border trade, but such state-led largesse comes with strings attached and China has the upper hand in talks

Alison Tudor-Ackroyd

January 08, 2018

When a $27 billion liquefied natural gas plant in the Russian Arctic came online in December, the first symbolic shipment from the Yamal peninsula was supposed to sail to China, instead it went to the UK.

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