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.
Don't worry, US will respond by being held hostage by Putin's insurrectionist puppet
China also gets to ramp up war economies for Taiwan
China does have a huge Navy now
Yet another item of IP they learned from America
I 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.
Unless you own Raytheon stock.
It is not. We are supplying them with unused weapons that have expired.
Not true. We have increased production of shells in order to send them to Ukraine.
Not 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
so did the us with ukraine...
and that just pushed russia straight to the arms of the chinese
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.
🙄
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.
It’s gonna be a team up.
Nah.
Yah.
This isn't China sending aid. This is China just not sanctioning Russia on dual-use goods.
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.
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.
More that China is laughing all the way to the bank.
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.
Because China benefits.
Ladybugs supporting Praying Mantises in massive predatory expansion Aphids say.
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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