China propping up Russia was a real wake up call for many people in Europe. India isn't perfect but manufacturing should be relocated there slowly even if initial costs of setting up factories is high.
Many countries what are far smaller than it.
Btw, life expectancy in Russia is lower than in Bangladesh, Jamaica, Palestine, Iran, Syria and many other countries what are on paper much poorer.
Depends where that 2% is located.
And if zero covid policy continues that means any possible factory can be shut down for weeks just because few people in the city had covid.
If that continues then moving manufacturing outside China becomes more plausiable even if there is extra costs...
Russia is already too big for it's budget.
If there is a +100 million population combined with huge landmass but poor economy then problems will arise even during peace time. Russia is also heavily corrupted making things worse.
You are trying to make it look like Taiwanese were planning to invade mainland China. Who would those US made weapons "slaughter" if there was a war.... PLA soldiers or average Chinese citizens? I think we know the answer.
It's like blaming Ukrainians for defending their country against Russian...
China did bet on wrong horse in this Ukraine business.
Maybe Xi believed it when Putin said that Ukraine is a cake walk and west simply rolls overs... now west is more united that ever before after cold war and it's exactly what China doesn't want. Now it's likely that wests stance towards...
Russians dont have enough guided munitions so they attack with unguided weapons what isn't best way as most of those bombs hit nothing.
F-16 with four 250kg Paweways can take out for targets while Su-30 with 10 unguided bombs hit maybe one stationary target.
Why didn't they buy full amount of Rafales at the first place? Buying more seems like the logical step to make.
It's a good fighter with potent weaponry.