The Chinese side is trying to compete with India in the LCA deal and is offering the L-15 plane, and they have already been offering it to Egypt with local production since the end of 2009. The Chinese and Egypt are angry with China for various reasons
Egypt tested the J-10C plane and asked for local production, and the Chinese refused, and the Chinese offered to export only the plane
In 2010, China rejected Egypt's production of the J-10A
In 2016-2017, China refused to produce the J-10C plane from Egypt
Egyptian-Chinese trade exchange 19 billion dollars 90% of Chinese exports to Egypt, therefore there is a complete imbalance in dealing with experiences between the two countries and China. Egypt exports to India 1.7 billion dollars in return for imports from India 2.8 billion dollars. There is some kind of balance and not a collapse like the relationship with China, and the numbers of Egyptian exports to India rise to achieve a better balance every year. Consequently, cooperation with India economically is better than China
The Chinese supported the Ethiopians to cut off the Nile water from Egypt on the pretext that the dam is a development project for Ethiopia, even though Ethiopia would cut off the water and blackmail countries
The volume of Chinese investments in Egypt is very low, not commensurate with the volume of Egyptian imports. There is no offset or a good balance
Europe offers Egypt an investment of $60 billion to build a road network between Egypt and Africa, a river navigation line, and an Internet cable linking Egypt to Africa, which is better than cooperation with China.
So China's anger at cooperating with India
It does nothing. If China wants to win any deals with Egypt, the Chinese offer must be attractive and good, and the Chinese must remedy the imbalance in the trade balance between them and Egypt. Let us clarify the difference between India and China, and that China offers better offers.
In the current wheat problem, India and Brazil offer good equal deals for wheat in exchange for fertilizers
The Indians offer a better technology transfer from China, because it means that they obtain a certificate from Egypt for the quality of Indian products instead of the bad reputation of Indian products, especially in the field of aviation.
Egypt uses international competition to get the best technical offers. Egypt, for example, signed a contract to produce some Korean defense products for the benefit of African countries, that is, when any African country wants to buy Korean defense products produced in Egypt, the purchase is from Egypt and not from South Korea
The signed contract K9-A1 included that production be in favor of the Arab and African countries, especially since Egypt owns a huge armored factory, the 200 Military Factory, whose capacity can reach the production of large quantities of self-propelled artillery. The low Egyptian manufacturing cost and the huge manufacturing capabilities in Egypt at the Military 200 Factory
Egypt is competing with Italy, India, Brazil and even China to get the best technical and financial offer, and not how much some people imagine that Egypt will accept only the assembly of products in Egypt, but that self-development will take place locally and in cooperation with other countries. The Italian radar was better
The Italian industrial complex wants to quickly sign the huge deal with Egypt, and the deal is obstructed by Italian pressures because of the killing of the Italian Regeni in Egypt.
The European countries provide, with the deals, support and financial grants to Egypt that may reach an additional 5%.
The Italians are competitors to the Chinese, as they are always the lowest prices in Europe for defense products, and they have flexibility in transferring technology similar to the Chinese. Therefore, competition remains very fierce in the field of armaments deals with Egypt. The Egyptian deals are always billions and large in size, and deals with German docks saved the German scrotum building industry.
The Indians spent on the LCA project an amount of 1.5 billion dollars to develop the parts of the plane. The true Indian engine has not yet reached it, but India has acquired technical capabilities, and Egypt has purchased 120 aircraft, 70 trainers, at a value of 2.1 billion dollars, and 50 other light combat aircraft, worth 2 billion dollars, which provide 120 to India. From Egypt and 123 to India, unlike the new version LCA-MK2 with 100 planes, or more than 340 planes, unlike the Malaysian deal, 36 planes. 200 K-8E planes, 160 of them for the Egyptian Air Force and 40 for export. Egypt cooperated with China for the program to develop the K-8E plane to the level of the K-8NG version, which was designed specifically for Egypt, with 120-160 planes. If we assume that the development cost is 2.5 million dollars for the plane, which is approximately From 300 million dollars to develop the K-8E plane, and this amount is a high percentage of it, a high profit for China, in addition to China’s marketing of more than 500 other planes locally and internationally, which were produced for the benefit of other countries. Consequently, India produced the LCA plane with a license in Samar Sofer for India. It is simply stated that India must provide the best technical and financial offer to Egypt because its success in contracting with Egypt will save it more than 6 billion dollars, including 4.1 billion dollars for production deals and 2 billion dollars for the benefit of the aircraft and the development of the aircraft in the mid-life development
It does not stop here, but India will also be able to promote the development of the Combat Air Teaming System (CATS) aircraft.
Suits Egyptian requirements as well as Loyal Wingman
A plane similar to the Chinese sw-6 aircraft is launched from LCH / LCH / LUH aircraft, which is simply India, which will achieve huge gains from cooperation with Egypt, especially if they possess sufficient intelligence in transferring technical requirements because the international competition is fierce for a large defense market such as the Brazilians, South Koreans and Italians compete in it. And the French and the Germans
As for the illusion of some that sensitive systems will not transfer their technology, this is naive, as Samar wants to obtain it through legal or illegal ways.
The Egyptian defense market was accused of saving German shipyards from bankruptcy by buying Egypt 4 submarines, 4 frigates and 10 patrol boats.
The Germans bought Egypt 23 air defense batteries
And High Power Electromagnetic (HPEM) Skywolf counter-UAV system
An Egyptian with values exceeding $2 billion provided them with funding to develop IRIS-T SLX/HYDEF systems
Egypt's purchases of LHD frigates encouraged other countries to contract them with Italy, and Egypt's purchases of LHD ships saved France from losses
India simply knows this well. Opening the door to technology transfer to Egypt will provide it with funding to further modernize its products and for greater profitability for India
