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Originally Posted by opendoor
Why would China want to take part in that? They're likely extremely annoyed at Putin, but are they going to hurt their own country to significantly sanction Russia? I doubt it. As it stands, NATO can hurt Russia economically, but not all that badly in the short term. Russia has relatively low debt and has become less reliant on goods from the West in recent years, so the effects of sanctions might take a while to really be felt.
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Honestly, doubtful, but if I was to make an argument, sure they already hate Russia, but it could be a good play for them to cripple Russia economically and get them out as a player in the middle east and extend their economic investment and trade power they've been building in the region. Also from my understanding, while trade with China is a huge part of Russia's economy, it's a really small part of China's economy so it wouldn't be much pain.