QuestionMORE- Tiang api yang semakin meningkat ke atas ibu negara Yaman dari Sanaa, menurut imej dramatik membanjiri media sosial, di tengah-tengah laporan bahawa kemudahan peluru berpandu Scud pada Fáj Attan Hill, di luar bandar, telah jatuh di bawah serangan baru.
Gudang telah datang di bawah serangan kedua-dua malam sebelumnya dan sehari sebelum itu. Asas dilaporkan menyimpan sebahagian besar Elbrus (Scud-B) Yaman R-17 dan peluru berpandu Transporter Penegak Pelancar (TEL).
Gabungan yang dipimpin Arab beberapa Negara Teluk, Sudan, Mesir dan Maghribi telah mengebom Yaman sejak Khamis lalu dalam usaha untuk melemahkan pemberontak Houthi, yang mengambil alih negara selepas peletakan jawatan presiden, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, pada bulan Januari.
Juga pada hari Isnin, satu serangan udara oleh gabungan itu melanda kem pelarian pemberontak yang dikawal di Yaman utara, membunuh 45 dan mencederakan 65 orang yang lain, Pertubuhan Antarabangsa bagi Migrasi (IMO) berkata.
Depot senjata juga dihujani di bandar kedua negara Aden pada hari Sabtu, meninggalkan 14 orang mati.
Pemberontakan Houthi bermula pada Yaman Ogos lalu sebagai pemberontak Syiah melanda turun dari kubu kuat mereka di pergunungan, menuntut pembaharuan ekonomi dan politik.
Pada bulan-bulan berikutnya, mereka merampas pemasangan negeri utama di ibu negara Sanaa dan memaksa pihak berkuasa Amerika Syarikat yang disokong negara keluar.
Para pemberontak di Yaman disokong oleh saingan utama geopolitik Arab Saudi, Iran, tetapi Houthis telah menafikan bahawa mereka menerima senjata dari Tehran.
Heavy blasts outside Yemen’s capital, attack on Scud
missile storage feared . . .
Pillars of fire are rising over the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, according to dramatic images flooding social media, amid reports that a Scud missile facility on Faj Attan Hill, just outside the city, has fallen under a new attack.
The warehouses already came under fire both the previous night and the day before that. The base reportedly stores a large portion of Yemen's R-17 Elbrus (Scud-B) missiles and Transporter Erector Launchers (TEL).
The Saudi-led coalition of several Gulf States, Sudan, Egypt and Morocco has been bombing Yemen since last Thursday in an attempt to weaken the Houthi rebels, who took control of country after resignation of president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, in January.
Also on Monday, an airstrike by the coalition hit a rebel-controlled refugee camp in the northern Yemen, killing 45 and injuring another 65 people, the International Organization for Migration (IMO) said.
An arms depot was also bombarded in the country’s second city of Aden on Saturday, leaving 14 people dead.
The Houthi uprising began in Yemen last August as the Shia rebels swept down from their stronghold in the mountains, demanding economic and political reforms.
In the following months, they seized key state installations in capital Sanaa and forced the country’s US-backed authorities out.
The rebels in Yemen are supported by Saudi Arabia’s main geopolitical rival, Iran, but the Houthis have denied that they are receiving weapons from Tehran.
QuestionMORE- Kuasa2 Arab Saudi, disertai oleh 9 negara2 lain, telah melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman terhadap pemberontak Syiah Houthi, Duta Arab Saudi ke Amerika Syarikat berkata. Serangan yang bermula dengan serangan udara, juga akan melibatkan "aset tentera yang lain."
Menurut Duta Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, operasi ketenteraan di Yaman bermula pada 19:00 EST (23:00 GMT).
Obama mengarahkan sokongan kepada op Arab yang dipimpin, PBB 'butiran masih memeriksanya'
Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Obama telah diberi kuasa peruntukan sokongan logistik dan perisikan kepada Majlis Kerjasama Teluk (GCC) led operasi tentera di Yaman, White House berkata dalam satu kenyataan, yang mengesahkan bahawa Washington mempunyai komunikasi yang rapat dengan Hadi, Arab Saudi dan negara-negara GCC lain sebelum pelancaran operasi ketenteraan.
"Walaupun tentera Amerika Syarikat tidak mengambil tindakan ketenteraan secara langsung di Yemen untuk menyokong usaha ini, kita mewujudkan Cell Perancangan Bersama dengan Arab Saudi untuk menyelaraskan sokongan Amerika Syarikat tentera dan perisikan," kata kenyataan itu.
Selain itu, White House menggesa Houthis untuk segera menghentikan "tindakan ketenteraan tidak stabil" dan kembali semula ke dialog politik dengan kerajaan Yaman yang digulingkan.
Al Arabiya melaporkan bahawa pesawat perang daripada Arab Tentera Udara Diraja mengebom kedudukan militia Yemen Houthi, menyasarkan pertahanan udara mereka.
Gabungan Arab diketuai telah mengisytiharkan ruang udara Yaman yang "zon terhad." Kapal di rantau ini juga telah menggesa untuk tidak mendekati pelabuhan Yaman kerana operasi tentera yang sedang berjalan.
Lebih daripada 20 orang telah dilaporkan mati dan lebih 30 lagi yang cedera berikut serangan udara Arab Saudi yang dipimpin di Yaman, agensi berita Sputnik yang dinamakan keselamatan tempatan dan sumber perubatan sebagai berkata.
Majoriti mogok sekitar Sanaa melanda kawasan kediaman yang terletak berhampiran lapangan terbang antarabangsa di ibu negara. Bangunan kerajaan dan lapangan terbang juga telah melanda semasa serangan.
Laporan dari tanah menunjukkan bahawa kuasa-kuasa Arab telah mengebom sebuah pejabat milik pemberontak Houthi di kawasan Jiraf Sana'a ini. Saluran TV Houthi yang dikendalikan dilaporkan berpuluh-puluh mangsa serangan udara awam berikut utara Sanaa.
Penduduk berkata pesawat perang disasarkan lapangan terbang di ibu negara, menurut Reuters.
Houthis digunakan berat api anti-pesawat untuk bertindak balas kepada pengeboman.
Satu lagi serangan kapal terbang perang telah dikatakan telah dilancarkan pada Dulaimi pangkalan udara tentera Sana'a ini. Al-Jubair berkata kepada Al-Jazeera bahawa pejuang Houthi berada dalam kawalan senjata balistik dan berat Yaman dan boleh mengambil alih tentera udara negara.
Laporan memetik perkhidmatan keselamatan Yaman berkata, 4 jet Sukhoi ditempatkan di pangkalan udara tentera Dulaimi musnah dalam serangan udara. Sementara itu, satu laporan Al Arabiya mendakwa serangan Arab yang dipimpin memusnahkan pangkalan udara bersama-sama dengan beberapa senjata, serta mengambil kebanyakan pertahanan udara pemberontak '.
Sementara itu, Arab Saudi, Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait dan mengeluarkan kenyataan bersama mengatakan bahawa mereka "memutuskan untuk menolak militia Houthi, Al-Qaeda dan ISIS (Negara Islam) di negara ini." Negara-negara Teluk berkata mereka bertindak balas kepada "ancaman besar" kepada kestabilan rantau ini, dengan mengatakan bahawa perjuangan mereka adalah untuk "menolak pencerobohan Houthi" di Yaman.
Al-Jubeir berkata gabungan 10 negara telah melancarkan kempen "untuk melindungi dan mempertahankan kerajaan yang sah" Presiden Yaman Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi selepas rayuannya untuk campur tangan.
Pembantu Hadi telah mendedahkan bahawa presiden adalah "dalam semangat yang tinggi" dan kekal di pangkalan Aden di selatan Yaman. "Presiden . . . berterima kasih negara-negara Teluk, Mesir, Jordan, dan Sudan, dan semua negara-negara di rantau ini," pengarah pejabat Hadi, Mohammed Marem, kepada Reuters. Serangan itu telah "dipulihkan penentuan rakyat" untuk memerangi Houthis, katanya.
Arab Saudi merancang untuk melakukan 100 pesawat perang dan 150,000 tentera untuk serangan Yaman itu, menurut Al Arabiya. Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan dan juga bersedia untuk menyumbang pesawat, manakala Mesir, Pakistan, Jordan, Sudan dan ingin menyumbang kepada operasi darat.
Mesir menyediakan sokongan politik dan ketenteraan untuk menjalani pembedahan, kata media kerajaan negara itu. Kaherah bersedia untuk mengambil bahagian dalam operasi udara, laut dan darat jika perlu, Kementerian Luar Mesir telah diumumkan.
Laporan media berkata, Jordan, Sudan, Maghribi dan Pakistan juga merupakan sebahagian daripada gabungan itu dan telah menawarkan sokongan mereka untuk operasi tentera di Yaman.
Walaupun duta Arab Saudi menegaskan Washington hanya "berunding" Riyadh, seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat memberitahu Reuters dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan bahawa Amerika telah menyokong operasi ketenteraan dengan cara yang tidak ditentukan.
Pemimpin Houthi telah seterusnya berjenama serangan Arab sebagai "pencerobohan" dan memberi amaran bahawa ia akan seret kawasan Teluk keseluruhan ke dalam konflik.
"Terdapat satu pencerobohan dijalankan di Yaman dan kita akan menghadapinya dengan berani," ahli jawatan politik Houthi, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, memberitahu Al Jazeera. "Operasi Tentera akan seret kawasan yang berperang yang luas."
Sementara itu, timbalan jurucakap PBB Farhan Haq kepada TASS bahawa PBB sedar Arab Saudi melancarkan operasi tentera di Yaman dan sedang mencari maklumat lanjut. Hanya beberapa jam sebelum pembedahan, Haq kepada wartawan bahawa PBB tidak percaya dalam tindakan tentera untuk menyelesaikan konflik di Yaman.
Sebelum pelancaran serangan di Yaman, militan Houthi mendakwa telah menawan pelabuhan selatan Aden, kubu kuat Presiden Hadi. Para pejuang berkata bandar adalah di bawah kawalan mereka dan penyokong presiden telah ditangkap.
Para pemberontak telah mengumumkan 20 juta riyal (US $ 100,000) ganjaran untuk menangkap Hadi, selepas mendakwa bahawa dia lari dari negara itu, yang berpangkalan di Lebanon Al-Manar TV melaporkan.
Pada bulan Ogos 2014, pemberontak Houthi bergerak dari utara dan menuntut pembaharuan ekonomi dan politik. Pada bulan September, mereka merampas pemasangan negeri utama di Sanaa.
Sebagai Houthis mengambil arahan daripada ibu kota bulan lalu, kedutaan Amerika Syarikat menutup operasi di Sana'a, manakala kedua-dua kerajaan saingan di utara dan selatan telah terus bersaing untuk kuasa. Hujung minggu lalu, pemberontak Syiah merampas bandar yang ke-3 terbesarTaiz Yaman.
SAUDI Arabia bombs Yemen, Launches Coalition
Op Against Houthi REBELS . . .
Saudi Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shiite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the US said. The offensive, which started with airstrikes, will also involve “other military assets.”
According to Ambassador Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, the military operation in Yemen started at 7 p.m. EST (11 p.m. GMT).
Obama ordered support to Saudi-led op, UN still ‘checking details’
US President Obama has authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-led military operations in Yemen, the White House said in a statement, confirming that Washington had close communication with Hadi, the Saudis and other GCC states prior to the launch of the military operation.
“While US forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort, we are establishing a Joint Planning Cell with Saudi Arabia to coordinate US military and intelligence support,” the statement said.
Moreover, the White House urged the Houthis to immediately halt “destabilizing military actions” and to return to political dialogue with the deposed Yemeni government.
Al Arabiya reported that warplanes of the Royal Saudi Air Force bombed positions of Yemen’s Houthi militia, targeting their air defenses.
The Saudi-led coalition has declared Yemeni airspace a “restricted zone.” Ships in the region have also been urged not to approach Yemen’s ports due to the ongoing military operation.
More than 20 people have reportedly died and over 30 others were injured following Saudi Arabia-led airstrikes in Yemen, Sputnik news agency cited local security and medical sources as saying.
The majority of the strikes around Sanaa hit residential areas located near the capital’s international airport. Government buildings and the airport were also hit during the offensive.
Reports from the ground indicate that Saudi forces have bombed an office belonging to Houthi rebels in Sanaa’s Jiraf area. A Houthi-run TV channel reported dozens of civilian casualties following airstrikes north of Sanaa.
Residents said that warplanes targeted the capital’s airport, according to Reuters.
Houthis used heavy anti-aircraft fire to respond to the bombing.
Another warplane attack was said to have been launched on Sanaa’s Dulaimi military airbase. Al-Jubair told Al Jazeera that Houthi fighters are in control of Yemeni’s ballistic and heavy weaponry and could be taking over the country’s air force.
Reports citing Yemeni security services said four Sukhoi jets stationed at the Dulaimi military airbase were destroyed in airstrikes. Meanwhile, an Al Arabiya report claimed that Saudi-led strikes destroyed the airbase along with several arsenals, as well as taking out most of the rebels’ air defenses.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait issued a joint statement saying that they “decided to repel Houthi militias, Al-Qaeda and ISIS (Islamic State) in the country.” The Gulf states said they were responding to a “major threat” to the stability of the region, saying that their cause is to “repel Houthi aggression” in Yemen.
Al-Jubeir said the 10-country coalition launched the campaign “to protect and defend the legitimate government” of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after his appeal to intervene.
Hadi’s aide has revealed that the president is “in high spirits” and has remained at his Aden base in the south of Yemen. “The president...thanks Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan, and Sudan, and all countries in the region,” the director of Hadi's office, Mohammed Marem, told Reuters. The offensive has “restored people's determination” to fight against the Houthis, he said.
Saudi Arabia is planning to commit 100 warplanes and 150,000 soldiers to the Yemen offensive, according to Al Arabiya. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan are also willing to contribute aircrafts, while Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Sudan want to contribute to ground operations.
Egypt is providing political and military support for the operation, the country’s state media said. Cairo is prepared to take part in air, naval and ground operations if necessary, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has announced.
Media reports said that Jordan, Sudan, Morocco and Pakistan are also part of the coalition and have offered their support for military operation in Yemen.
While the Saudi envoy insisted Washington only “consulted” Riyadh, a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that America has been supporting the military operation in an unspecified way.
Houthi leaders have in turn branded the Saudi offensive as “aggression” and warned that it will drag the entire Gulf region into conflict.
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“There is an aggression underway on Yemen and we will confront it valiantly,” a member of the Houthi political office, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, told Al Jazeera. “Military operations will drag the region to a wide war.”
Meanwhile, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told TASS that the UN is aware of Saudi Arabia launching a military operation in Yemen and is looking into more details. Just a few hours before the operation, Haq told journalists that the UN does not believe in military actions to resolve the conflict in Yemen.
Before the launch of the offensive in Yemen, Houthi militants claimed to have captured the southern seaport of Aden, President Hadi’s stronghold. The fighters said the city was under their control and the president’s supporters were being arrested.
The rebels have announced a 20 million riyal (US$100,000) reward for Hadi’s capture, after alleging that he fled the country, Lebanon-based Al-Manar TV reported.
In August 2014, Houthi rebels moved in from the north and demanded economic and political reforms. In September, they seized key state installations in Sanaa.
As Houthis took command of the capital last month, the US embassy closed its operations in Sanaa, while the two rival governments in the north and south have continued to compete for power. Last weekend, Shiite rebels seized Yemen’s third largest city Taiz.
Question more- Anjakan ekonomi kolosal Rusia ke arah Asia pd tenaga, kewan-gan, & infrastruktur mendalam pada sidang kemuncak APEC tahun ini di Beijing dengan 17 urus niaga 2 hala utama dgn China. Perikatan strategik boleh mendesak keluar pemain global yang lain.
Tawaran ditandatangani oleh ekonomi ke-2 & yg ke-8 terbesar di DUNIA mencer-minkan 'sinergi', seperti sumber daya alam yang kaya Rusia mempunyai banyak untuk menawarkan negara yang mempunyai salah satu penduduk yang paling pesat berkembang di DUNIA dan ekonomi, Martin Jacques, kolumnis dan penulis Apabila Peraturan Dunia China, memberitahu RT.
"Rusia adalah sangat kaya dgn sumber asli & China adalah sangat miskin sehingga ada sinergi semula jadi dlm hubungan ekonomi mereka. Rusia mempunyai sesuatu untuk menawarkan Cina yang memerlukan China, "katanya.
Kedua-dua Rusia dan China juga tidak selesa dengan tatanan DUNIA yang didominasi Amerika Syarikat saat ini, walaupun tidak cukup dengan cara yang sama, kata Jacques.
"Keperluan kepentingan Rusia dan status tidak dihormati dan saya berfikir bahawa pada dasarnya masalah. China mengakui kepentingan perintah antarabangsa, pasti mahu menjadi sebahagian dpdnya, tetapi pada masa yg sama ia tidak merasa itu punya pegangan yang sama dalam sistem itu sebagai contohnya Amerika Syarikat, "katanya.
Tajuk mencuri sesuai adalah, sudah tentu, perjanjian itu antara Gazprom Rusia dan China National Petroleum Corp. Apabila siap perancangan barat akan memberikan sehingga 30 bilion meter padu gas sebagai tambahan kepada 38 bilion setiap tahun bersetuju pada bulan Mei.
Membuka saluran paip kedua ke China di atas perjanjian ‘agreement’ itu $400 billion melanda pada bulan Mei akan membuat China pengguna utama gas Rusia.
Menurut perunding tenaga Tri-Zen Antarabangsa, ini adalah berita buruk bagi pengeksport tenaga lain, yang sudah menghadapi persaingan yang ketat.
"Ia hanya berita buruk pada umumnya," bagi LNG di seluruh DUNIA, kata Peter Howard, Presiden Kanada Institut Penyelidikan Tenaga Bloomberg News.
"Ia akan benar-benar sesak," katanya.
Laluan barat adalah lebih baik bagi Rusia kerana ia adalah berhampiran lapangan minyak terbesar di negara itu dan terletak berhampiran dgn sempadan China. Kon-trak itu dijangka akan ditandatangani awal tahun depan menurut Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Gazprom Aleksey Miller.
Kesepakatan tenaga utama yang lain adalah tawaran Rosneft anak Vankorneft ke China Minyak Negara dan Gas Exploration & Pembangunan untuk mengawal 10 % peratus kepentingan dlm bidang yg ke-2 terbesar minyak, Vankor. Ia dianggarkan mempunyai rizab dari 520 juta tan metrik minyak dan 182 bilion meter padu gas asli, dan meliputi 417 km persegi.
Moscow dan Beijing juga dipinda prabayar penghantaran minyak mentah 2015-2017.
TAWARAN Kuasa
China terus meningkat saham besar di utiliti kuasa Rusia, karena mencari sumber untuk kekuatan ekonomi yang semakin berkembang.
Penjana hidroelektrik Rusia RusHydro yang menandatangani beberapa perjanjian bernilai $4.9 billion (230 bilion Rubles) dengan syarikat kuasa Cina. RusHydro akan bekerjasama dengan Sanxia "Three Gorges" syarikat untuk membiayai, membina, & mengendalikan, loji kuasa hidroelektrik di Timur Jauh Rusia untuk mengeksport elektrik ke China.
Jiran-jiran akan bersama-sama (Rusia dengan 51 % peratus, Cina 49 % peratus) kewangan dan membina sebuah loji kuasa hidroelektrik 2000 megawatt dan 3 yang lebih kecil di lembangan Sungai Amur. Stesen-stesen juga boleh digunakan untuk mengawal banjir, yg ‘devastated’ melanda Timur Jauh Rusia & bahagian Utara China pada musim panas 2013.
Russia’s colossal economic shift toward Asia in energy, finance, and infrastructure deepened at this year’s APEC summit in Beijing with 17 major bi-lateral business deals with China. The strategic alliance could crowd out other global players.
The deals signed by the world’s second and eighth largest economies reflect a 'synergy', as natural resource rich Russia has a lot to offer a country with one of the world’s fastest growing populations and economies, Martin Jacques, columnist and author of When China Rules the World, told RT.
“Russia is very rich in natural resources and China is very poor so there is a natural synergy in their economic relationship. Russia has something to offer China which China needs,” he said.
Both Russia and China are also uncomfortable with the current US-dominated world order, although not in quite the same way, says Jacques.
“Russia’s interest’s needs and status is not respected and I think that is essentially the problem. China acknowledges the importance of the international order, definitely wants to be part of it, but at the same time it doesn’t feel it’s got the same stake in that system as for example the US,” he said.
The headline stealing accord was, of course, the deal between Russia’s Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp. When completed the western pipeline will deliver up to 30 billion cubic meters of gas in addition to the 38 billion annually agreed in May.
Opening a second pipeline to China on top of the $400 billionagreementstruck in May will make China the largest consumer of Russian gas.
According to energy consultants Tri-Zen International, this is bad news for other energy exporters, who already face stiff competition.
“It’s just bad news generally,” for LNG around the world, said Peter Howard, President of the Canadian Energy Research Institute to Bloomberg News.
“It’s going to get really crowded,” he said.
The western route is better for Russia because it is near the country’s largest oil fields and close to the Chinese border. The contract is expected to be signed early next year according to Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller.
The other major energy deal was Rosneft subsidiary Vankorneft’s offer to China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development to control a 10 percent stake in its second-largest oil field, Vankor. It is estimated to have reserves of 520 million metric tons of oil and 182 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and covers 417 square km.
Moscow and Beijing also amended prepayment crude oil deliveries from 2015-2017.
Power deals
China continues to pick up large stakes in Russian power utilities, as it looks for sources to power its growing economy.
Russian hydroelectricity generator RusHydro signed several agreements worth $4.9 billion (230 billion rubles) with Chinese power companies. RusHydro will partner with the Sanxia “Three Gorges” company to finance, construct, and operate, hydroelectric power plants in Russia’s Far East in order to export electricity to China.
The neighbors will jointly (Russia with 51 percent, China 49 percent) finance and construct a 2000 megawatt hydroelectric power plant and three smaller ones on the Amur River basin.
The stations can also be used to control floods, whichdevastatedRussia’s Far East and parts of Northern China in the summer of 2013.
Rushydro dam in Amur region (Image from wikipedia.org)
Satu lagi perjanjian berasingan yang telah disabetake dengan Power Construction Corporation China (PowerChina) bagi pembinaan loji pam penyimpanan di Sungai Sarantesna di Wilayah Leningrad sekitar 300 km dari St Petersburg. Projek ini akan menelan belanja $ 3 bilion dan ia dijangka menjadi 70-75 % peratus dibiayai oleh syarikat-syarikat China dan Rusia.
Rusia penjanaan kuasa syarikat ОАО TGK 2 yang menandatangani perjanjian ‘agreement’ dengan Huadian Power Corporation International Limited (HPIC) bagi projek-projek tenaga di Archangelsk Wilayah utara Rusia di Laut Putih Projek ini akan mewujudkan peluang pekerjaan, meningkatkan hasil cukai dan memperbaiki keadaan sosial & ekonomi di rantau ini. Rusia merancang untuk mengumpul dana melalui bank-bank Cina.
Ini bukan serangan pertama China menjadi sebuah syarikat kuasa Rusia. Pada tahun 2011 HPIC memulakan usaha sama dengan TGK 2 untuk membina sebuah loji kuasa di wilayah Yaroslavl Rusia.
TAWARAN Kewangan
Pemberi pinjaman terbesar Rusia Sberbank dan China milik negara Export-Import Bank of China menandatangani kesepakatan, termasuk tawaran insurans, dan perjanjian rangka kerja pada garis kredit. Satu lagi utama perbankan Rusia, VTB, menandatangani perjanjian kerjasama dengan Huawei Technologies, sebuah syarikat teknologi China
Bank pembangunan luar negeri Rusia Vnesheconombank (VEB) & China Develop-ment Bank (CDB) juga menandatangani memorandum persefahaman dengan VEB Asia dan Agensi Rusia Perumahan Pinjaman gadai janji.
Another separate deal was struck with the Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) for the construction of a storage pump plant on the Shapsha River in the Leningrad Region some 300 km from St. Petersburg. The project will cost $3 billion and it is expected to be 70-75 percent funded by Chinese and Russian companies.
Russia’s power generation company ОАО TGK 2 inked anagreementwith the Huadian Power International Corporation Limited (HPIC) for energy projects in Russia’s northern Archangelsk Region on the White Sea The project will create jobs, boost tax revenue and improve social and economic conditions in the region. Russia plans to raise funds through Chinese banks.
This isn’t China’s first incursion into a Russian power company. In 2011 HPIC began a joint venture with TGK 2 to build a power plant in Russia’s Yaroslavl region.
Finance Deals
Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank and China’s state-owned Export-Import Bank of China signed accords, including deals on insurance, and a framework agreement on credit lines. Another Russian banking major, VTB, signed a cooperation agreement with Huawei Technologies, a Chinese technology company
Russia’ foreign development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) and China Development Bank (CDB) also signed a memorandum of understanding with VEB Asia and Russia’s Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending.
