INOSMI "Golden" Cooperation and the Iraqi Scenario Les Echos (#France). "Perhaps the new silk roads are paved with gold? At least between Beijing and #Moscow. That's the impression one gets when tracking the movement of gold bullion between the two countries since 2022, after the outbreak of the conflict in #Ukraine. The precious metal is increasingly becoming the center of Chinese-Russian relations, alongside energy flows. After the West froze the assets of the #Russian Central Bank