China won Turkey's missile defense competition

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Although the deal is canceled China's system has proven to be the technically the superior one as well as affordable from the beginning. Oh well there will always be other buyers no matter how much the naysayers, doubters, and haters has to say.

BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey has canceled a $3.4 billion long-range missile defense system tender which was provisionally awarded to China, a move that had stirred U.S. and Western concern, an official at the Turkish prime minister's office told Reuters on Sunday.

NATO member Turkey in 2013 had chosen China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp as the preferred candidate for the deal, sparking Western worries over inherent security risks from Chinese technology.

"It has been decided that this tender will be canceled," an official at Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's office said. "This decision has been signed of by the Prime Minister this week."

An official from Turkey's Defence Industry Undersecretariat, which has run the technical negotiations with China, said in July that a major stumbling block has been China's reluctance to make a technology transfer which could give Turkey the knowledge to operate the system and eventually replicate it.

The prime ministry official said Ankara was now planning to go solo. "Turkey will now launch its own project to build such a defense system," he said.

Turkey had given mixed messages on whether it was planning to integrate the system with NATO infrastructure or not and U.S. and European allies has wanted Turkey to use a system that is compatible with NATO's air defense.

During the tender, U.S. firm Raytheon put in an offer with its Patriot missile defense system. Franco-Italian group Eurosam, owned by the multinational European missile maker MBDA and France's Thales TCFP.PA, came second in the tender.
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Although the deal is canceled China's system has proven to be the technically the superior one as well as affordable from the beginning. Oh well there will always be other buyers no matter how much the naysayers, doubters, and haters has to say.



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I am sure that the biggest stumbling block was China's reluctance on tech transfer instead of external political pressure by fellow competitors.
 
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Although the deal is canceled China's system has proven to be the technically the superior one as well as affordable from the beginning. Oh well there will always be other buyers no matter how much the naysayers, doubters, and haters has to say.


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I am actually glad this is happening. Always had some doubt on the wisdom for the deal. Turkey has not yet proven to be a reliable partner and why would one want to transfer technology to a treaty bound NATO member. Bear in mind that the leading members of NATO are bent on containment of China's independent policies.

On top of this, You have an open conflict in Syria. Imagine the fallout if any of these weapons were used against Russian aircraft operating there.
 
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I am actually glad this is happening. Always had some doubt on the wisdom for the deal. Turkey has not yet proven to be a reliable partner and why would one want to transfer technology to a treaty bound NATO member. Bear in mind that the leading members of NATO are bent on containment of China's independent policies.
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maybe the calculation (of China) was to put a wedge among NATO members, a pivot in the west:D, the deal is secondary. Now the misstrust is there to stay regardless the deal.
 
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