Die EU wächst zunehmend davon, dass Russland in China tödliche Drohnen herstellt

Submission Statement:

The European Union is growing increasingly convinced that Russia is producing lethal drones in China to prop up the invasion of Ukraine, raising fresh questions on how far Beijing is willing to risk to abide by its “no-limits partnership” with Moscow.
The mounting concerns focus on a secret weapons programme that Russia has allegedly established in China’s Xinjiang province, which was first brought to light by Reuters in an exclusive investigation published in September.

The Reuters report described how a subsidiary of Almaz-Antey, a Russian state-owned arms company under EU and US sanctions, had “developed and flight-tested” a new model of a long-range drone “with the help of local specialists.” (The outlet was unable to determine the identity of the specialists but saw documents that confirmed the transfer of the made-in-China drones to the Russian city of Izhevsk)

If only we had the capacity to do something about it. 

Outside of the west it’ll be seen as quite hypocritical of the EU to accuse China of supporting the war in Ukraine while they support a genocide in Gaza. If they decide to levy sanctions on China for this, they won’t have much support and will face a lot of economic backlash, which they cannot afford given the weak state of their economies at the moment.

>The EEAS, however, is yet to confirm three crucial points of information: whether the factory is producing lethal drones, whether those drones have already been shipped to Russia, and whether Beijing is aware of Moscow’s weapons programme. 

Does the editor read the articles they caption? I’m going to leave this to EEAS to play itself out.

What is perhaps often reported and least understood is that Russia have gone down the route of commercial off the shelf component for their equipment which makes their arms industry much more resilient. Chips for auto and electronic market can be sourced freely and ends up in Ukraine, there is no easy way to stop it. 

EU has no leverage to get China to stop, its not like they will drop tariffs or do something beneficial for China in return