Russia cannot contain China anymore than Canada can of US. Russians can produce advance tanks in WW2, while we had trouble making guns. They had a huge head start, but look at it today, we have almost caught up and even surpass in some fields to the Russians, because our economy.
It's not just more money, it's better education system, it's more prestige, it's more tech companies.
What the Americans can do the Russians can only do on a limited scale if at all, the Russians can sort of keep up in aviation (F-22 will almost enter service 2 decades, before Russians will have their own), but look at force projection, one Russian junk compare to 11 American super carriers.
UK, France don't need to license produce, they are in NATO, they work together with the US, so they can design their own Euro fighter, and Rafale.
If Vietnam is in some sort of agreement with China, and we work together, you can have experience in aviation, and design your own engines, and fifth gen fighter, instead of licensing from Russians.
Do you think the Russians will ever allow this? Or a better question, do you want to? Russia is the Brown of Ivy leagues. Good compare to some others, but in the league, dead last. Everyone wants to go to Yale or Harvard, if they choose Ivy.
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Mr Second
worse in political power, German voice compare to Americans may as well be mute. I personally drive a mercedes, so I like German engineering, but Germans have no political or military power. In terms of wider range of goods, Americans have 20 brands to German's maybe 1.
For every mercedes, America has GM, Ford, and etc, then there is electronics, programing. Believe me the Germans are very specialized, but the Americans are tops at EVERYTHING.
That's the difference.