A soldier in front of some Chinese PLA and Russian military weapons in Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 30, 2021. Daniel Ceng Shou Yi / EPA / TASS
Politico: ‘Hunting rifles’ — really? China ships assault weapons and body armor to Russia
Customs data obtained by POLITICO reveals direct shipments of Chinese assault rifles, as well as drone shipments and body armor routed via Turkey and the UAE.
Chinese companies, including one connected to the government in Beijing, have sent Russian entities 1,000 assault rifles and other equipment that could be used for military purposes, including drone parts and body armor, according to trade and customs data obtained by POLITICO.
The shipments took place between June and December 2022, according to the data provided by Import Genius, a customs data aggregator.
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8 comments:
Good.
This certainly will undermine any peace initiative China is doing and will make them wanting to be seen as a peace broker a hard pill to swallow.
What they need is some competent military leaders. 1000 assault rifles smh
China wants to replace USA's geopolitical role in the world. Why the baby steps. rifles and body armor? really? we give first class arty, missiles, tank killers and world class real time intel with a promise of world class tanks and fighters. If China wants to upstage us in the world arena, they will have to up their game.
I think China has already done that. Just wait 5 years.
These are receipts for private civilian resale. Take the greatly larger number of body armor and rifles that China exported to the USA this year and you can see that this is a nothingburger. Just Politico paying it's weekly agitprop tithe to the intel agencies.
And the surprise is?
Wouldn’t it be far simpler for China to ship these small goods by train? The story of customs receipts from Turkey and the UAE sounds and smells like something that came out of a bull.
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