China's AVIC displayed its Z-10 attack helicopter for the first time outside its home country at the Singapore Airshow - the only non-Western design on display in a year in which no Russian defence companies were in attendance.
The model has only one known export customer, Pakistan, and no sales have been announced so far at the air show, where the trade portion ends on Friday.
"The Z-10 may appeal to some of those countries that don't have access to U.S. defence technology," said Douglas Barrie of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. "After-sales logistics and maintenance support would be a challenge, given Beijing's relative inexperience in this area."
Welcoming China to the WTO and the years of outsourcing should be considered as acts of national suicide. How's that been working out other than boosting the quarterly EPS estimates by a few cents?
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Western democracies and especially democrat presidents love making deals with despotic nations such as China and Iran that gives the despots everything they want up-front, in exchange for vague promises to do something later. See China and WTO, Iran and nuclear deal, North Korea and their nuclear deal, Biden and Venezuela, etc. etc.
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"America’s industrial base struggles to ramp up defense production while China’s churns out ever more weapons" Oh where oh where did our industrial base go? Take a look at China and then you will know.
South Korea is doing a great job for us, and many other nations in that region are building out their manufacturing bases with cheaper labor than here in the states. The only thing we shouldn't be shipping out is high tech jobs, and our defense of Taiwan and their TSCO is proof that we are on the right track with that concept.
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The Allies defeated the Axis powers in WWII substantially through superior manufacturing capacity. Sending ours to China is a blunder of staggering, world-historical proportions.
@TheRightArtRepublican4mos4MO
If you believe funding our military now is too expensive, just wait until we go to war. See what the consequences of allowing Russia to aggressively rebuild its former empire costs. See what it costs when China takes Taiwan by force. See what it costs to defend against Iranian-sponsored terrorist attacks.
The surest way to have peace is to be prepared for war. This is a lesson that unfortunately must be learned and relearned over and over again.
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It’s so expensive to prepare for war, no one ever wants to do it. And then there are the excuses: “preparing for war makes war more likely” and “only greedy corporations want to prepare for war” and “if you want a stronger defense, that means you’re a RINO, globalist, forever-war type evil person.” Etc.
How an it be considered a "Non-western" design when it looks exactly the same as the US Apache Helicopters?
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