

We spoke with Trail of Bits co-founder and CEO Dan Guido about the security challenges inherent in VPNs and the limitations of security audits and reports. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.We interviewed Eva Galperin, Electronic Frontier Foundation’s director of cybersecurity, about the limitations of VPNs and tips for selecting the appropriate VPN based on individual circumstances. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account The two countries will enhance financial cooperation as well, Mishustin said.Īndrey Kostin, CEO of Russia’s state bank VTB, said at the forum that Russia’s central bank has been stockpiling the yuan and has provided the yuan and rubles for more than 70% of the two countries’ trade.ĬNN’s Alex Stambaugh and Duarte Mendonca contributed to reporting. The $200 billion figure also means China will buy more agricultural products from Russia, and Chinese companies will produce more cars locally in the country, the paper cited other Russian officials at the forum as saying. But Putin said in March that the three countries had completed all agreements on finishing the pipeline, and that Russia will deliver at least 98 billion cubic meters of gas to China by 2030.Īlexander Novak, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, said Russia’s energy supply to China could increase about 40% this year, the Global Times reported.

The two countries have also planned to build the Power-of-Siberia 2 pipeline to deliver more Russian gas to China via Mongolia.

Russia has surpassed Saudi Arabia to become China’s largest crude oil supplier since February, according to most statistics from China’s customs authority.

VCG/VCG/Getty Images/FileĬhina is helping to prop up the Russian economy. The liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo ship 'Cygnus Passage' from Russia at a terminal operated by China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec Group) on January 7, 2021, in Tianjin, China. That will be one year ahead of the schedule set by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2019.Įnergy cooperation with China remains Russia’s “absolute priority,” Mishustin said. “I believe that this year we will be able to achieve the goals set by the two countries’ leaders and bring the total trade to $200 billion,” Mishustin said during a speech at the China-Russia business forum in Shanghai on Tuesday, according to China’s state-run Global Times. This year, their trade continued to surge, up 41% in the first four months, according to Chinese customs figures. Last year, bilateral trade jumped nearly 30% to a record $190 billion, mainly boosted by China buying Russian energy. Russia has been hit by unprecedented Western sanctions since it unleashed a devastating war against Ukraine and has been shut out of much of the global economy.īut China, which has declared “no limits” to its friendship with its northern neighbor, has thrown the Kremlin an economic lifeline, tempering the impact of its banishment from the global financial system. Trade between Russia and China is expected to hit a new record level of $200 billion this year, according to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin during his trip to China, as Moscow faces growing isolation from the West.
