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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.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Don't worry, US will respond by being held hostage by Putin's insurrectionist puppet

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

China also gets to ramp up war economies for Taiwan

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

China does have a huge Navy now

[–] BakedGoods 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Except "the west" (stupid term) is not falling into economic peril.

Burn Moscow and sanction China so they can do what they do best. Starve.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yet another item of IP they learned from America

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

so did the us with ukraine...

and that just pushed russia straight to the arms of the chinese

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

While I don’t ever want to see WW3, I’ll get some small satisfaction after getting downvoted to hell last year for saying Russia and China were teaming up.

🙄

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Its not a team up. Its one state consolidating power over the other and converting them into a vassal state. Russia had power and influence around the world. They traded all of that to be China's pet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s gonna be a team up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This isn't China sending aid. This is China just not sanctioning Russia on dual-use goods.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My bits are firmly placed on an eventual military team up. It may not be acknowledged by either country, but they’ll share all the same enemies, and have many of the same goals.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Exactly. Iran and NK will join that side for WW3, whenever it may be. When the conflict is done, the world will have prosperity and cooperation for a couple decades - history repeats.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

More that China is laughing all the way to the bank.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Chinese companies do business with whoever pays them. Ukraine, for example, is heavily reliant on Chinese drones and has been buying over half the global supply of DJI's Mavic quadcopters.

And Chinese companies aren't alone in this. Lots of developing economies don't feel they gave a stake in the conflict and have continued to do business. Most of Russia's oil exports have been going through India. The fact that the US has been so muted in its response to this, because they feel like India is "on-side" in the confrontation against China, makes the singling out of China seem hypocritical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Because China benefits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ladybugs supporting Praying Mantises in massive predatory expansion Aphids say.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


China is helping Russia undertake its biggest military expansion since Soviet times, ramping up sales of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for its war against Ukraine, according to a US assessment.

US officials are hoping the release of the intelligence will encourage European allies to press China, as the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, heads to Beijing this weekend and G7 foreign ministers meet next week in Italy.

“Our view is that one of the most gamechanging moves available to us at this time to support Ukraine is to persuade the PRC [People’s Republic of China] to stop helping Russia reconstitute its military industrial base,” the official said.

The secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is expected to make the case on China’s ties with Russia as he meets top diplomats of other industrial democracies at the G7 talks in Capri, Italy.

The administration hopes that such dialogue, including a recent telephone call between Biden and the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, can help contain tensions between the world’s two largest economies but US officials have stressed they will still press on concerns.

Also on Friday, the US and UK prohibited metal-trading exchanges from accepting new aluminium, copper and nickel produced by Russia and barred the import of the metals in the latest effort to disrupt Russian export revenue.


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