According to the TASS news agency, Russia's ** Putin plans to start a period of foreign trips in 2024. In recent months, dozens of countries have extended invitations to Russia, including North Korea, Brazil, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Turkey, and many more, but the Kremlin has not answered in the affirmative.
Considering that Russia is still at war and Putin has said that he will go to some friendly countries, the news of the trip to Russia was made public and attracted more attention.
In fact, there are reasons why Putin postponed his foreign visit, one is because March is the first election in the United States, and when everything is over, he can finish the country's major affairs first.
In a turbulent and chaotic world, excessive pursuit of political influence will not only cause Russia to deviate from its core interests, but also bring more trouble to itself.
Therefore, Russia has chosen a "merit-based" strategy, focusing its attention on partners who have direct access to strategic benefits.
And Russia is the most worried, because because of the restrictions of the United States, Russia has "three trump cards" in its hands.
First of all, it is necessary to diversify the circulation of primary products. Russian food** is a major component of the Russian economy and plays a central role in its geographical location. Russia's wheat exports have risen sharply this year, such as Pakistan, which has exported only 29 percent of wheat to Pakistan this year40,000 father-in-law, which will surge to 1.4 million father-in-law by 2023. In addition, for the first time, Russia used the UAE dirham as a payment method for grain exports of wheat.
In addition, the supply of commodities such as coal, chemical products, and fertilizers is also denominated in yuan or dirhams, suggesting that Russia is deliberately reducing its dependence on the dollar.
Secondly, by November 2023, the total amount of China and Russia has exceeded 200 billion US dollars, and it is expected to exceed 300 billion US dollars in 2025. The bilateral ** amount between China and Russia has reached 90%, which also reflects the firm attitude of China and Russia to fight against the hegemony of the dollar.
In response, Russia has called Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and China "a big trump card against the US economic blockade", and Russia will also make it the focus of a head-to-head confrontation with the US dollar, because it can provide more aid to the western part of Zhejiang.
Pakistan and Russia have close ties in the economy, military and other aspects, especially in recent years in the two countries in the energy field of further cooperation, the settlement of the yuan allows Russia to avoid the path of the dollar, thus enhancing Russia's voice in South Asia.
With Russia's diversified economic transformation, the UAE has become its main financial partner and has built a large investment and financing market based on the aversion of the dollar.
China, one of the "three trump cards", is in a "back-to-back" economic and strategic position, and Russia is using its own currency as its own. At the same time, China's huge market can be a good substitute for Western countries, and there is a natural cooperative relationship between the two in countering US hegemony.
In short, Russia is well aware that the confrontation with the dollar will not happen in a day, and that Putin is deeply frightened by the isolated sanctions imposed on Russia in the war in Ukraine, so he has proposed a "look east" strategy, that is, Russia has abandoned its ties with the West in favor of a more stable and reliable economic institutional framework.
Russia can take advantage of not only China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, but many other powers.
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