Posted on 04/12/2024 3:45:25 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
China is helping Russia ramp up its defense industrial base at such a large scale that Moscow is now undertaking its most ambitious expansion in military manufacturing since the Soviet era as it continues its war against Ukraine, according to senior Biden administration officials.
The support China is providing includes significant quantities of machine tools, drone and turbojet engines and technology for cruise missiles, microelectronics, and nitrocellulose, which Russia uses to make propellant for weapons, said the officials.
Chinese and Russian entitles have also been working jointly to produce drones inside of Russia, one of the officials said.
The support from China is having a significant impact on Russia’s ability to continue its assault on Ukraine, while Ukraine’s military has been plagued with equipment and weapon shortages. The challenge for Ukraine is exacerbated by Republicans in the US Congress continuing to block a vote on a new American military aid package to Kyiv.
“One of the most game changing 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. Russia would struggle to sustain its war effort without PRC inputs,” said a senior administration official, adding that Chinese “materials are filling critical gaps in Russia’s defense production cycle.”
Just this week Gen. Chris Cavoli, the commander of US European Command, told lawmakers that Russia has been “quite successful” at reconstituting its military since it invaded Ukraine more than 2 years ago, and its capacity has largely “grown back” to what it was before the invasion. US officials are now making clear that China is largely responsible for that rapid build-up.
As a demonstration of this deepening China-Russia partnership: in 2023, 90% of Russia’s micro-electronics imports came from China.
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Excrement Happens.
Write-In Volodymyr Zelensky for Congress if your member supports more money for Ukraine.
So Xiden is Russia now?
I hear Ukraine will be out of munitions for the 11th time tomorrow and the 12th time on the 23rd.
Putin’s 6th death is on for next week and the 7th perhaps three weeks later.
-sources say.
You support and propagandize for Chicoms. Why?
Are you paid?
I’m not on a foreign government payroll I met foreign agents some of the first Chinese students living in the dorms on my college campus around 1980.
I met South African agents in the National Party “white rule” days posing as tourism representatives.
That’s the extent of my involvement with agents of other nations as far as I know it.
But we have many more angry trannies and perverts than RuZZZZia! We will defeat them with gay glam.
We should have been educating engineers instead of queer studies majors.
Facts are facts, not propaganda. Did you really believe the stupid neocons and Biden when they said that China would not aid Russia? Fools. Everyone on this forum that’s not a leftist nut has been saying China would support Russia for two years now. The ChiComs are purposefully draining our weapons supply and they will take Taiwan soon and we will just be standing by with nothing in one hand and our dicks in the other.
I think China took their time to observe the war. Now that they see that the Russians are on a war footing now and that the West’s stockpile of weapons is getting depleted, naturally they’re siding with the Russians.
I think both China and Russia planned a slow bleed war to fool American and Europe to spend $ billions of good money after bad.
We should be allied with Russia against China. Too many politicians owned by China.
A country where half the nation doesn’t have running water and electricity is playing 4D chess and will take over the world!
facts are facts, not propaganda. Do you really believe the stupid communists and the folks that insured Russian victory in a month? Fools. Everyone on this forum that is not an uninformed nutter has been saying China can barely help themselves. The nutters believe US manufacturing capacity on par with 1965 or 20yrs after WWII is somehow deficient. They haven’t taken a thing in most living Americans lives yet are going to take over the world in our life.
Be prepared to read of an independent Taiwan ad infinitum.
Russia is currently paying 16% to borrow money.
We are paying 4% for money.
I have no idea what China is paying but their credit rating is A+ which is several levels below US AA+ or they’re paying more than us.
Who is slow bleeding whom? This is not a trick question.
Another reason to end this failed proxy war that we started and have done everything we can to keep going.
“ The ChiComs are purposefully draining our weapons supply and they will take Taiwan soon and we will just be standing by with nothing in one hand and our dicks in the other.”
Next Rush supports this.
I don’t understand this response.
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