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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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[–] psvrh 58 points 10 months ago (11 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.

[–] eardon -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Unless you own Raytheon stock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is not. We are supplying them with unused weapons that have expired.

[–] eardon 1 points 10 months ago

Not true. We have increased production of shells in order to send them to Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

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