{"id":11270,"date":"2023-07-24T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11270"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:57:20","slug":"china-secretly-sends-enough-gear-to-russia-to-equip-an-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11270","title":{"rendered":"China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cRussia has imported more than $100 million-worth of drones from China so far this year \u2014&nbsp;30 times more than Ukraine. And Chinese exports of ceramics, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/materials-science\/ceramic-armor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">component<\/a>&nbsp;used in body armor, increased by 69 percent to Russia to more than $225 million, while dropping by 61 percent to Ukraine to a mere $5 million, Chinese and Ukrainian customs data show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat is very clear is that China, for all its claims that it is a neutral actor, is in fact supporting Russia\u2019s positions in this war,\u201d said Helena Legarda, a lead analyst specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a Berlin think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were China to cross the red line and sell weapons or military equipment to Russia, Legarda said she would expect the EU to enforce secondary sanctions targeting enablers of Putin\u2019s war of aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/china-firms-russia-body-armor-bullet-proof-drones-thermal-optics-army-equipment-shanghai-h-win\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/china-firms-russia-body-armor-bullet-proof-drones-thermal-optics-army-equipment-shanghai-h-win\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRussia has imported more than $100 million-worth of drones from China so far this year \u2014 30 times more than Ukraine. And Chinese exports of ceramics, a component used in body armor, increased by 69 percent to Russia to more than $225 million, while dropping by 61 percent to Ukraine to a mere $5 million, Chinese and Ukrainian customs data show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is very clear is that China, for all its claims that it is a neutral actor, is in fact supporting Russia\u2019s positions in this war,\u201d said Helena Legarda, a lead analyst specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a Berlin think tank.<\/p>\n<p>Were China to cross the red line and sell weapons or military equipment to Russia, Legarda said she would expect the EU to enforce secondary sanctions targeting enablers of Putin\u2019s war of aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,552,272,355,314,1545,259,315,311,158,1055],"class_list":["post-11270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11271,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions\/11271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}