China nearly halved its arms imports over the past five years as it replaced foreign weapons with its own technology
Russia supplied 77 per cent of China’s purchases, including aircraft engines and helicopter systems, followed by France with 13 per cent.
Despite the war with Russia, Ukraine remained the third-largest source of China’s imports with 8.2 per cent
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Russia supplied 77 per cent of China’s purchases
Not exactly a surprise, then. And good luck for the Russian’s arm industry bouncing back, considering its performance on the battlefield and its interleaving with western tech that it hasn’t managed to decouple itself from since 2014. China’s only taking a reasonable stance there.
