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| China Lays Down Russian Arms |
| 2007-05-09 |
| The may meeting of the Russian-Chinese Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation has been postponed again, this time until autumn. In Moscow, they are saying that the change is due to changes in the personnel on the commission. In Beijing, they say it is due to the need to make improvements under current contracts. The real reason is most likely the substantial reduction in military-technical cooperation between Russia and China, which has lost exhausted potential in its current form. Kommersant learned of the postponement of the commission meeting in the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. “The reason is purely technical,” it was explained there, “a change of commission chairmen.” At the end of March, Sergey Ivanov, now first deputy prime minister, was replaced by new Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. Sources in the Russian defense industry have suggested to Kommersant that there is another reason the meeting is not being held. They say that they meeting was moved back by Beijing, which is demanding that improvements to Russian weapons be made under current contracts after Chinese testing. In particular, the test firing of a Moskit missile installed on a Project 956EM cruiser last year was a problem, as was the firing of a Club-S on a Project 636 vessel. |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #2 My guess is that the Chinese want to buy single copies of the weapons along with the manufacturing knowhow, and the Russians are balking. Good for the Russkies. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-05-09 05:56 |
| #1 Once again reflects the hidden sectarianism = intra-politicking inside the former Commie Bloc -the former USSR, now RUSSIA, likes to criticize and rant agz the USA-NATO = Western democracies, but QUIETLY targets the largest percentage/-ile of its mil arsenals-forces units agz CHINA, A FACT THAT CONTINUES TO BE REFLECTED IN POST-USSR NET MAPS VV THE NUMBER OF RUSSIAN BASES AND TYPE OF BASES-UNITS LOCATED ALONG THE RUSSO-CHINESE BORDERS. OTOH, KOMMERSANT > RUSSIAN ARMS SALES: LOWER QUANTITY, HIGHER QUALITY article. Russian Generals, Admirals, Politicos, and Perts demand decadent Western Capitalism give them all the very best in order to kill the West. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-05-09 00:22 |