They even put down their pride to buy France military product, That is unthinkable in Cold war times. Why do you think they would not even go a step further in buying Chinese weapon products? Russia needs rapid naval modernisation at lower cost. They is not better way than buying Chinese naval product.
lool You seem not to understand that China is different from France/any western country. In that we in the west/france have been advanced/industrialize for a very longg time way way before China even knew/embraced industrilization/open up. Moreover we had empires/colonies that stretched the globe. So we had been world powers for a veryyy long time. The Russians (despite resenting us) admire us. They admire/respect strong advanced countries. So its easier for them to buy high tech weapons systems from us, since we are more developed/advanced than them, than buying from China who they still consider to be superior to, and have been for most past of this century. The day Russia buys high tech wespons systems from China, you will see how mahy Russians/and their newspapers being angry/embarassed about this, than they buying from us in the west/U.S/israel (which they have been doing for a long time now, wihtout much fanfare). So you can't compare France with China, since Russia has been selling weapons/technology to China for a long time and considered it a junior partner for much of the past decades during the cold war until recently, meanwhile they have never had that relationship with France(or any developed western country for that matter), since France doesnt need anything from them(in fact France is more advance/developed than them in most military fields/living standards etc), so its less embarassing for them to buy from us in the west than from CHINA or any other developing country for that matter. So there you go.
You contradict yourself. You say Russians only deign to accept billions of dollars worth of lowly Chinese goods because the US cut them off. My question is - why doesn't Russia have the manufacturing base to produce these "unsophisticated parts"? If Russia has such low regard for Chinese components, you'd think the first thing they'd do is set up their own assembly lines rather than spend *billions* on Chinese goods? After all that french guy said Russia would never buy anything military related from China. Yet he's been proven wrong. Who knows what the future holds?
On a side note who would have guessed that a giant Chinese crane would be responsible for building the pride of her majesty's navy? China has come a long way. I think you may see cows fly in your lifetime.
UK's Biggest Crane Passes Under Forth Bridges | Forth Road Bridge
You seem not to have red my comment/post correctly bros. did i say Russia wont ever buy military products from China? i said hight tech/sophisticated weapons systems like drones/LHP/fighter jets, armoured vehicles (they bought from Italy.lol), defense technologies from Israel. etc . You should ask yourself why didnt/dont they buy these from their 'friend/ally' China?
Moreover China indeed has a far larger manufacturing base than Russia obviously, but then again Russia is more advanced in military tech than China. So its a non starter for moscow to procure sophisticated defence products from China apart from components/parts which most countries do.
Huh.........i really dont understand why you bring in cranes into the discussion bros. Are cranes a military/defence products?....... So i wont even answer/waste time on this one, since its a non starter.
.........hmmmmmm......well if i recall well, according to the Indians its is(so the Indians might agree with you, but not me.).lol Ban on ZPMC cranes to hurt Indian ports - Livemint
Talk of paranoia.
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