Several readers have commented that in their countries the urmedium.com site was not accessible and the link does not work. One reader in particular used this fact to post extensive instructions on how the technically literate can adjust their computers to get around what is presumed to be national censorship against the Iranian site. The purpose of my website is intellectual discourse about key issues and events of the day, not tuition in computer techniques and these various comments and technical instructions have been and will be systematically deleted. In these circumstances, I summarize here what of importance was set out in my interview that I did not repeat in the article. The essential point is that under the conditions of simultaneous U.S. sanctions and military threats against Russia and China these two countries need one another to an equal degree. Yes, Russia needs China, just as it needs India, to take the major portion of oil exports which cannot now be sent to Europe. Russia needs China to replace high technology equipment and parts that it cannot now receive from the USA and Europe. Russia needs China to replace the household white goods and electronics that it cannot easily purchase from Europe due to its cut-off from SWIFT. Russia needs Chinese industrial cooperation as it diversifies its economy in a bid for economic sovereignty. But China needs Russia to provide energy and food security against American blackmail and threats to cut off its supplies from the Middle East and other regions by means of interdiction of shipping. Russia has overland pipelines and sea channels on its protected Northern Route which give China essential back-up against U.S. threats. In addition, Russia provides needed markets for China's Huawei and other sanctioned technology companies to roll out complete 5G infrastructure at large scale abroad. Russia has turned over to China the automobile market which Europe has abandoned. This is not a small market and is very useful at this stage in China's global entry in the automotive market with its new electric car companies. Then, of course, there is the military dimension: both countries have cutting edge weapons systems that the other side lacks.