Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.
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The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid.
Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.
Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.
When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.
And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.
China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China.
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
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