Primorsky Krai, the most southeasterly federal subject of Russia’s Far East District, whose port Vladivostok opens up onto the Pacific Ocean, and China’s Jilin Province have experienced a burst of cross-border economic activity during the first five months of 2025. At the Russian-Chinese checkpoint of the border between these two countries’ respective regions, the number of vehicles and people crossing this checkpoint rose during the January-May period of 2025 to 19,000 trucks, 6,000 buses, and 187,000 individuals, a 45% increase from the corresponding January-May period of 2024.
This may appear relatively small, but it is part of the real development that occurs in the world outside the collapsing speculative financial system of the Western nations. The location of this Russia-China crossing, which occurs on the Russian side at the town of Kraskino, is located very close to where China, Russia, and North Korea meet. These three countries plan to incubate this largely uninhabited tri-nation zone into a development zone. First, North Korea announced that it had reactivated, on June 17, the rail system that connects Russia and North Korea, which had been suspended since the 2020 COVID pandemic. With this connection, there will be a semi-monthly direct train service between their capitals of Pyongyang and Moscow. The journey, which is the longest direct train route in the world, will take eight days, covering more than 10,000 km (6,200 miles), with stops in major Russian cities.
Second, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced on May 1 that Russia and North Korea will build a road bridge connecting the two countries, which will be 4.7 km long, including the approach roads, and is expected to be completed in 18 months. In this area, there is no road bridge connecting North Korea and Russia.
Third, North Korea’s Rason Special Economic Zone produces North Korean products for export. Some of these goods could be shipped to China’s city of Hunchun, which is directly opposite the Rason Zone.
These projects of real physical development, further integrating the three countries, are the paradigm for a BRICS-type program, fed by Hamiltonian credit, for the anti-entropic growth of the globe. The recent British duping of President Trump and the Israelis to wage war against Iran, is meant to blow people up and derail these developments.
