Quote Originally Posted by diogen_ View Post
OK.It means you don’t have any real evidence concerning US plans to break up China and Russia beside figments of your imagination that potentially they can do it, do you?

Well I never made this claim, it seems to be an idea that some Russians subscribe to, rightly or wrongly. So I will not try to justify it because I have not idea or proof about whether it might be true. I can speculate though!

But it doesn't seem very unrealistic to me though. The US must have been jubilant when the USSR fell apart, and it has been very keen to encourage ex Soviet states distance themselves from Russia as much as possible since then...

Obviously there is some genuine local resentment in certain ex Soviet countries against Russia, but many agencies of the USA have been quite happy about this and made its best to reinforce and increase such feelings. I understand that there has been plenty of funding of all sorts of activities in ex Soviet republics, that essentially mount up to anti-Russia sentiments among those involved. Not to mention sponsoring of media with a fairly obvious angle.

As for China, this is probably a MAJOR reason why China chooses to stick with its media and internet censorship programs - as unpalatable as it is.
They've seen what happened in other countries when media is opened up - i.e. first an relentless stream of complaints from locals that demoralise everyone... then foreign capital moves in. Sweden made this type of change - scrapped state control over TV. Now, there is a dominance of foreign owned TV stations that angle

This is probably also the reason behind the Russian requirement for foreign sponsored organisations to register etc.