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▼中国外務省；プーチン首相１１・１２両日北京を公式訪問
11.10.2011, 00:40
http://japanese.ruvr.ru/2011/10/11/58499480.html

中国外務省スポークスマンは「温家宝首相の招きで、プーチン首相が１１・１２両日北京を公式訪問し、中ロ首相定例会談に出席する」と伝えた。

　又中国外務省によれば、プーチン首相とともに訪中する代表団は総勢１６０名。なお新聞「人民日報」の報道では、代表団には「ガスプロム」「ロスネフチ」「ルサール（ロシア・アルミニウム）」といったロシアの大手企業指導部のメンバーも含まれている。

　中ロ首相会談で優先的に取り上げられるテーマは、今後３０年を見越した両国のガス協力プロジェクト。なおガス協力に関する合意は、中ロ間で価格問題の調整がついていないため、まだ結ばれていない。

　現代中国国際関係研究所の専門家達は「中ロエネルギー協力が、今回の首相会談の最も重要なテーマの一つになる」と見ている。

　現在ロシアは、世界最大のエネルギー生産国であり、一方中国は世界最大のエネルギー消費国だ。又中国は昨年ドイツを抜いて、ロシアにとって最大の貿易相手国となった。両国は、２０１５年までに貿易取引高をさらに倍増したいと希望している。


▼ロシアと中国　経済近代化で協力合意締結へ
10.10.2011, 11:42
http://japanese.ruvr.ru/2011/10/10/58447861.html

　ロシアと中国は経済の近代化分野での協力に向けた2国間合意に調印する計画だ。ロシアのアレクサンドル・ジューコフ副首相が「コメルサント」紙とのインタビューで明らかにした。それによれば、ロシアから中国へのハイテク製品の輸出を拡大することが可能になるという。

　今回の協力合意は、ロシアのウラジーミル・プーチン首相の中国訪問の際に調印される予定。プーチン首相は11日から12日にかけて中国を訪問することになっており、第16回露中首相定期会合に参加する。

　ジューコフ副首相によれば、協力合意にはナノテクノロジーをはじめ、宇宙技術、バイオテクノロジー、IT産業などが含まれているという。すべてあわせると20のプロジェクトが用意されているとのことで、総額は70億ドルに上るという。


▼プーチン首相　訪中時　貿易経済協力の多様化について討議
10.10.2011, 22:40
http://japanese.ruvr.ru/2011/10/10/58497236.html

ロシアは対中貿易における原料輸出中心の歪みに満足しておらず、１１・１２両日実施されるプーチン首相の中国訪問では、露中貿易経済協力の多様化問題が主要なテーマとして取り上げられる見込み。

　１０日ユーリイ・ウシャコフ首相府副長官は、プーチン首相訪中を前にモスクワで開かれたブリーフィングで次のように述べたー

　「中国は今やドイツを抜いて、ロシアにとって最大の貿易相手国となった。今回の訪問の課題は、貿易経済コンタクト強化ばかりでなく、そうした関係の構造を多様化することだ。なぜなら構造そのものに我々は全く満足していないからだ。

　今年露中間の取引高の総額は、７００臆ドルに達する可能性があると期待されているが、専門家の中には、そうした数字を超えると予想する向きもある。　ただロシアの中国向け輸出品の７０％以上が、天然資源・原料で占められている。そのため交渉では、イノヴェーション分野での協力に大きな注意が割かれるだろう。」


▼ロシア当局、軍事スパイ容疑で中国人の男拘束
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20111006-OYT1T01051.htm

【モスクワ＝寺口亮一】ロシア連邦保安局（ＦＳＢ）は５日、対空防衛システム「Ｓ３００」に関する軍事機密を入手しようとしたスパイ容疑で、中国人の男１人を拘束した、と発表した。

　ロシア通信が伝えた。

　男は中国の情報機関「国家安全部」の任務で公式代表団の通訳を装い、国家機密であるＳ３００の技術や修理に関する文書を金銭と引き換えに手に入れようとした。昨年１０月下旬から拘束されており、プーチン首相の訪中を１１日に控えたこの時期に露当局が発表に踏み切った意図は不明だ。

　露独立新聞によると、ロシアはＳ３００の改良型２０基を中国に売却しており、中国側の狙いについても臆測を呼びそうだ。


▼ロシア保安庁：中国人スパイ容疑者　１年前の逮捕を発表
http://mainichi.jp/select/world/news/20111006k0000m030140000c.html

　【モスクワ田中洋之】ロシア通信によると、連邦保安庁（ＦＳＢ）は５日、露軍の対空ミサイルシステム「Ｓ３００」に関する機密情報を入手しようとしたスパイ容疑で中国人を昨年１０月に逮捕したと発表した。プーチン首相は１０日から中国を訪問する予定。中露間ではロシア産天然ガスを中国に供給する価格交渉が難航しており、発表は交渉を有利に進める狙いもありそうだ。

　容疑者は中国の情報機関である国家安全省の指示を受け、公式代表団の通訳を装ってＳ３００の技術などの機密文書を買い取ろうとした疑い。検察当局は今月４日にモスクワの裁判所に起訴した。


▼ロシア当局、1年前の中国人スパイ拘束を突然発表＝その狙いとは？―中国メディア
http://www.recordchina.co.jp/group.php?groupid=54995

2011年10月5日、ロシア連邦保安庁（FSB）は中国人スパイの拘束を発表した。拘束自体は1年前の事実で、プーチン首相訪中直前というタイミングが注目を集めている。8日、環球網が伝えた。

逮捕された童勝勇（トン・ションヨン、音訳）は中国当局の訪問団通訳としてロシアに渡った。その際、関係者にわいろを贈り、地対空ミサイルS-300関連の技術資料を入手しようとしたという。

逮捕自体は昨年10月のこと。11日のプーチン首相訪中直前の発表にどのような意図があるのか、さまざまな憶測をよんでいる。香港・亜州時報電子版は米露関係の停滞、ミサイル防御（MD）戦略を通じた米国の挑発という環境下で、中ロの連携と米国への対抗は両国ともに必要としていると評した。


▼Putin prepares for Chinese charm offensive
By Charles Clover and Isabel Gorst in Moscow
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/60969f80-f336-11e0-8383-00144feab49a.html#axzz1aJxkNBkQ

Vladimir Putin travels to Beijing on Tuesday for a visit designed to breathe new life into the countries’ faltering relations and showcase the Russian prime minister’s commitment to an eastward tilt in Russian foreign policy.

The Beijing visit, Mr Putin’s first overseas trip since it was announced that he will run for the presidency in 2012, follows his comments last week that Russia would seek to create a “Eurasian Union” with former Soviet states, starting with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Mr Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, however, that the Beijing visit had been long planned and has nothing to do with the announcement in September that Mr Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev – whose foreign visits focused on the west – would switch jobs next year.

The two countries, which share a 4,300km (2,700 miles) border and fought a brief war in 1969, have been driven into closer co-operation by mutual opposition to what they call a US led “unipolar” world order. An example of which was last week’s veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria.

However, they still look upon each other with an unease which has stymied efforts to build co-operation and trade in areas such as energy which has been a cornerstone of the Beijing -Moscow strategic partnership, announced in 1996.

One of Mr Putin’s main tasks will be to lay the ground for the solution of a disagreement over gas prices that since 2006 has blocked the construction of two gas pipelines from Siberia to China, a deal worth an estimated $1,000bn over 30 years.

Russian officials on Monday cautioned that no deal would be struck on pricing. “The signing of the gas pricing deal is not planned at this point,” Yuri Ushakov, the government’s deputy chief of staff, told reporters but Moscow will hope the visit can smoothe the way to a deal by the end of the year.

The contract is critical to Russia’s plans to diversify its energy trade away from Europe and strengthen its foothold in the world’s fastest growing energy market. However, China is in less of a hurry to clinch a deal having secured LNG supplies from multiple sources and built a pipeline to carry central Asian gas to its northwestern frontier. Executives from the state-controlled energy companies Gazprom and Rosneft will accompany Mr Putin.

“Every time there is a high level visit the two countries’ leaders talk about ‘great strides’ in energy co-operation, but these have so far failed to happen” said Linda Jakobson, lead author of a recent report on China – Russia relations by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Russia is the world’s largest producer of oil, and China recently surpassed the US as the world’s largest consumer of energy. But just 6 per cent of China’s crude oil imports came from Russia last year, a smaller share than five years ago, according to a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which cited China’s concerns about being too dependent on its northern neighbour.

Arms export is another area where trade has failed to live up to its potential. While China was once Russia’s largest arms customer, and Russia accounted for 90 per cent of Chinese arms imports, sales since 2007 have plummeted

“China has to a great extent bought everything that Russia is able and willing to sell it,” said Ms Jakobson.


Putin's China visit watched for strategic signals
By Gleb Bryanski
MOSCOW | Sun Oct 9, 2011 5:06am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/09/us-russia-china-putin-idUSTRE7980CK20111009

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin visits China on Tuesday in his first foreign trip since revealing plans to reclaim Russia's presidency, addressing a challenging relationship with a giant neighbor whose growth is both an opportunity and a potential threat for Moscow.

For Putin, whose main focus has been domestic in nearly four years as prime minister, the trip sets in motion a return to forefront of Russian foreign policy ahead of a March election in which he is expected to win a six-year term as president.

Beneath talk of strategic relations and shared stances on world affairs, wrangling over a gas pact worth a potential $1 trillion points up the tough issues he will confront in dealing with Russia's far more populous, faster growing neighbor.

China, facing its own leadership transition next year, may try to gauge Putin's plans for what could be 12 years at the helm of a country whose natural resources and nuclear arms make it a factor in Beijing's economic and geopolitical strategies.

"The significance of this trip exceeds that of a normal prime minister-level visit," said Zhao Huasheng, director at the Center for Russia and Central Asia Studies at Shanghai's Fudan University.

Putin will bring an army of executives including the CEOs of state-controlled energy firms Gazprom and Rosneft and aluminum producer UC RUSAL, all eager to exchange their wares for Chinese cash.

His meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will feature warm affirmations of friendship and solidarity on big global issues between two countries that often move in lockstep to counter the United States and Europe.

VETO

Their double veto last week of a European-drafted, U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution to condemn Syria's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters was a warning against Western meddling in their own countries and others worldwide.

Putin may use the trip to show the West an emphasis on China as Russia's geopolitical partner and a customer for its energy.

He did just that in a televised meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller on October 3, pointedly ordering him to prepare proposals on expansion into Asian markets, seen as a way to diversify Russian energy exports away from stagnant Europe.

President Dmitry Medvedev has not been cool to China since Putin steered him into the Kremlin after his own 2000-2008 presidency, but his emphasis has been on presenting a friendlier face to the West and improving ties with the United States.

Putin's meeting with Miller followed European Commission raids on offices of Gazprom subsidiaries in Europe that underscored persistent tensions over the continent's heavy reliance on Russian gas, which EU members want to reduce.

But China's friendly political ties with Russia, and their partnership in the loose BRIC grouping that also includes India and Brazil, do not make Beijing less of a tough customer when it comes to energy deals.

GAS DEAL

Putin will likely seek to resolve the price disagreements that have prevented Russia nailing down a 30-year deal to supply China with up to 68 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

But Gazprom's export chief told Reuters last month that the five-year-old negotiations might not end this year, pushing back initial deliveries beyond the latest target of 2016.

Meanwhile, China is cultivating other sources of energy supplies, particularly in ex-Soviet Central Asia.

A report this month by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said China was gaining the upper hand in the relationship as it becomes less reliant on Russia for advanced weapons and looks elsewhere for some of its energy.

It said Russia's significance to China would continue to diminish in the coming years, and that "there are strategic planners in Beijing and Moscow who view the other side as the ultimate strategic threat in the long term.

While Putin may use China as a foil against the West, the pragmatic former KGB officer is well aware of such concerns.

As he prepares for what could be two six-year terms as president, "the risks from China's growth will be watched more closely than the opportunities," said Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs.

At an investor conference on Thursday, Putin used a joke to play down the challenge posed by China's faster growth after TPG Capital co-founder David Bonderman outlined China's path to becoming the world's largest economy.

"He got me worried. He said that the United States is so far the world's biggest economy but China will undoubtedly take over. So we now need to keep our foreign currency reserves in yuan while the Chinese will keep them in dollars," Putin said.

"That will be an interesting Russian doll."


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