China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says
China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says
Beijing helping with drone production, space-based capabilities and ballistic missile production
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US officials said that China provided more than 70% of the $900m (£723m) in machine tools – probably used to build ballistic missiles – imported in the last quarter of 2023 by Russia.
They also said that 90% of Russia’s microelectronics imports – used to produce missiles, tanks and aircraft – came from China last year.
China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says
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So China gets to make money while Russia does all the dirty work, with both Russia and the West falling into economic peril.
Win-win for the Chinese.
63 5 ReplyDon't worry, US will respond by being held hostage by Putin's insurrectionist puppet
37 3 ReplyChina also gets to ramp up war economies for Taiwan
13 2 ReplyChina does have a huge Navy now
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Yet another item of IP they learned from America
1 1 ReplyI mean, it's the same thing with the West giving weapons to Ukraine.
Somebodies getting rich off of that, it's just not any of us.
6 7 ReplyUnless you own Raytheon stock.
3 0 ReplyNot quite... It it's the same thing the West did in WWII
The USA did not get directly involved until funds from France and later the UK were complete depleted
1 0 ReplyIt is not. We are supplying them with unused weapons that have expired.
5 4 ReplyNot true. We have increased production of shells in order to send them to Ukraine.
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so did the us with ukraine...
and that just pushed russia straight to the arms of the chinese
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