Or you can just....buy natural resources normally? China is hardly short on civilian exports right now, quite the opposite. Again, not the USSR.
Chinese military exports to other countries
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Or you can just....buy natural resources normally? China is hardly short on civilian exports right now, quite the opposite. Again, not the USSR.
Why did the USSR strategy of arming Third World countries left and right end up failing anyways?
That's the subject of many long papers, but the short version is wasting resources on unsustainable foreign dependencies. In a word, overreach.
I think China is more interested in building up other countries MIC than the Soviets.
For example, we often see they will help a country to build a factory that can make chassis, starting off with mounting just a manned machine gun.
In the future those chassis will keep developing, and they will use some Chinese parts and munitions.
I think this is the best way to help a country defend themselves long term.
We don’t see them sending platforms to Russia, but components and machines that make components, they want Russia to have a string MIC and seem to be helping make it happen.
If you read about the Global Security Initiative you can see that this is a manifestation of that.
For example, we often see they will help a country to build a factory that can make chassis, starting off with mounting just a manned machine gun.
In the future those chassis will keep developing, and they will use some Chinese parts and munitions.
I think this is the best way to help a country defend themselves long term.
We don’t see them sending platforms to Russia, but components and machines that make components, they want Russia to have a string MIC and seem to be helping make it happen.
If you read about the Global Security Initiative you can see that this is a manifestation of that.
The US also dumped weapons all over the place. The thing is the US collected on the debt.
The Soviet block was always poorer. They started out with a bunch of ruined bombed out countries after WW2. That is why they lost the economic war. That and the Soviet economic model, which especially after Stalin sucked.
You think the Soviets did not do this? See how many weapon systems they transferred production to China. T-54, MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21, AK-47, SKS.
They also transferred a production license of the T-72 to Poland and Yugoslavia. The Mi-2 helicopter was built in Poland.