#resource-security

With Moscow consumed by the Ukraine war, Beijing is executing a stealthy economic annexation of Siberia. We analyze how Chinese state-backed firms are acquiring vast timber, water, and mineral rights around Lake Baikal and Yakutia, sparking local Russian unrest and exposing Putin's catastrophic sacrifice of territorial sovereignty.

Exposes how Moscow uses security contracts, private military firms, and state firms to lock access to African cobalt, lithium, uranium and gold—fuelling military production, sanctions evasion, and new trade corridors through China and Gulf intermediaries.