🌐 theguardian.com
From sanctioned cars to beauty clinics, Russian rubles have flowed into China’s border towns since Ukraine war
Suifenhe, a small city in China’s economically depressed rust belt, is a microcosm of an evolving Chinese-Russian trading relationship
↗ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/19/russia-china-border-increase-trade-ukraine-war