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Titolo: China, Russia quit dollar

Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Vladimir
Putin on a visit to St. Petersburg on Tuesday.ALEXEY DRUZHININ / AFP
St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the
US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral
trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
announced late on Tuesday.
Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between
Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to
protect their domestic economies.
"About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies,"
Putin said at a joint news conference with Wen in St. Petersburg.
The two countries were accustomed to using other currencies,
especially the dollar, for bilateral trade. Since the financial
crisis, however, high-ranking officials on both sides began to explore
other possibilities.
The yuan has now started trading against the Russian rouble in the
Chinese interbank market, while the renminbi will soon be allowed to
trade against the rouble in Russia, Putin said.
"That has forged an important step in bilateral trade and it is a
result of the consolidated financial systems of world countries," he
said.
Putin made his remarks after a meeting with Wen. They also officiated
at a signing ceremony for 12 documents, including energy cooperation.
The documents covered cooperation on aviation, railroad construction,
customs, protecting intellectual property, culture and a joint
communiqu. Details of the documents have yet to be released.
Putin said one of the pacts between the two countries is about the
purchase of two nuclear reactors from Russia by China's Tianwan
nuclear power plant, the most advanced nuclear power complex in China.
Putin has called for boosting sales of natural resources - Russia's
main export - to China, but price has proven to be a sticking point.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who holds sway over
Russia's energy sector, said following a meeting with Chinese
representatives that Moscow and Beijing are unlikely to agree on the
price of Russian gas supplies to China before the middle of next year.
Russia is looking for China to pay prices similar to those Russian gas
giant Gazprom charges its European customers, but Beijing wants a
discount. The two sides were about $100 per 1,000 cubic meters apart,
according to Chinese officials last week.
Wen's trip follows Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's three-day visit
to China in September, during which he and President Hu Jintao
launched a cross-border pipeline linking the world's biggest energy
producer with the largest energy consumer.
Wen said at the press conference that the partnership between Beijing
and Moscow has "reached an unprecedented level" and pledged the two
countries will "never become each other's enemy".
Over the past year, "our strategic cooperative partnership endured
strenuous tests and reached an unprecedented level," Wen said, adding
the two nations are now more confident and determined to defend their
mutual interests.
"China will firmly follow the path of peaceful development and support
the renaissance of Russia as a great power," he said.
"The modernization of China will not affect other countries'
interests, while a solid and strong Sino-Russian relationship is in
line with the fundamental interests of both countries."
Wen said Beijing is willing to boost cooperation with Moscow in
Northeast Asia, Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as
in major international organizations and on mechanisms in pursuit of a
"fair and reasonable new order" in international politics and the
economy.
Sun Zhuangzhi, a senior researcher in Central Asian studies at the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the new mode of trade
settlement between China and Russia follows a global trend after the
financial crisis exposed the faults of a dollar-dominated world
financial system.
Pang Zhongying, who specializes in international politics at Renmin
University of China, said the proposal is not challenging the dollar,
but aimed at avoiding the risks the dollar represents.
Wen arrived in the northern Russian city on Monday evening for a
regular meeting between Chinese and Russian heads of government.
He left St. Petersburg for Moscow late on Tuesday and is set to meet
with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-11/24/content_11599087.htm

 the renaissance of Russia as a great power," he said.
sicuro... :-)) I cinesi sono i nuovi buoni samaritani ;-)) Chissà quando i 
russi si renderanno conto che li stanno fregando...