https://apnews.com/article/united-states-china-russia-ukraine-war-265df843be030b7183c95b6f3afca8ec
WASHINGTON (AP) — China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine, according to a U.S. assessment.. Two senior Biden administration officials, who discussed the sensitive findings on April 12 on the condition of anonymity, said that

https://www.ft.com/content/dc4bc03c-3d9d-43bd-91db-1ede084e0798
For nearly 30 years, Russia has been enabling China's rise as a military power. Russian weapons producers have supplied the People's Liberation Army with missiles, helicopters and advanced

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/12/politics/china-russia-support-weapons-manufacturing/index.html
As a demonstration of this deepening China-Russia partnership: in 2023, 90% of Russia's micro-electronics imports came from China, which Russia has used to produce missiles, tanks, and aircraft

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-intelligence-shows-china-is-surging-equipment-sales-to-russia-to-help-war-effort-in-ukraine-ap-says
China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war

https://www.csis.org/analysis/changing-nature-and-implications-russian-military-transfers-china
Executive Summary. Russian-Chinese military transfers have increased sharply since 2015. These have been highlighted by a series of important arms transactions, including landmark contracts in 2015 for the sale of Su-35 combat aircraft and S-400 air defense systems worth $5 billion, followed by a series of important transactions involving the

https://www.ft.com/content/ecd934b6-8a91-4b78-a360-9111f771f9b1
The US has accused China of providing Russia with cruise missile and drone engines and machine tools for ballistic missiles, as it urges Europe to step up diplomatic and economic pressure on

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-russia-military-cooperation-arms-sales-exercises/
The Ebb and Flow of Russian Military Aid and Arms Sales. Military aid and arms sales played a major role in cementing ties between the newly founded People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. After entering the Korean War in October 1950, China suffered heavy losses and turned to the Soviets for aid.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/9/infographic-which-countries-buy-the-most-russian-weapons
Russia is the world's second-largest arms exporter, behind the United States, accounting for roughly 20 percent of global weapons sales. Between 2016 and 2020, Moscow sold $28bn of weapons to 45

https://www.bbc.com/news/60571253
Trade between China and Russia reached a record $240bn (£191bn) in 2023, up more than 64% since 2021 - before Russia's invasion of Ukraine - according to official figures from China. Russian

https://thediplomat.com/2022/05/how-china-supplies-russias-military/
China-Russia contracts for the joint design of weapons systems and military R&D are difficult to track. However, it is known that the share of technology transfers and joint ventures in the

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-firms-russia-body-armor-bullet-proof-drones-thermal-optics-army-equipment-shanghai-h-win/
Evidence of this kind shows that China, despite Beijing's calls for peace, is pushing right up to a red line in delivering enough nonlethal, but militarily useful, equipment to Russia to have a material impact on President Vladimir Putin's 17-month-old war on Ukraine.The protective gear would be sufficient to equip many of the men mobilized by Russia since the invasion.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1246277561/u-s-raises-alarms-that-china-is-helping-russia-reconstitute-its-defense-industry
China has told the world that that it is neutral in the Russia-Ukraine war, and that it is not providing weapons to Russia. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected visit to Beijing this month.

https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2023/07/10/russias-war-could-reshape-the-global-arms-market-in-favor-of-china/
The trend reversal in Russia's arms sales predates its war in Ukraine and the pandemic. Until 2016, Russia had managed to expand and hold its share of the international arms market while

https://www.ft.com/content/90b1ada2-a18e-11e6-86d5-4e36b35c3550
The Su-35 deal, along with a 2014 agreement to sell Russia's S-400 surface-to-air missile, which could arrive in China by 2018, amounts to a lifting of an informal ban on selling advanced

https://thediplomat.com/2022/08/amid-russia-ukraine-war-china-could-dominate-the-value-arms-market/
Although Russia's arms sales to Latin America represented just 0.8 percent of Russia's total global sales from 2015-2019, Russian potential sales of aircraft and helicopters extend from Mexico

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/03/russia-arms-sales-weapons-exports-worldwide-ukraine-war/
May 3, 2023, 11:41 AM. After cresting in the early 2010s, Russian arms exports have fallen to levels not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Wall Street Journal referred to Russia's

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/03/11/russian-arms-export-plummet-amid-war-sanctions-think-tank/
The sale of Russian weapons to other countries fell by 53% between the five-year periods of 2014-18 and 2019-23, according to the latest report by the think tank, dated March 11. While Moscow

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/11/fear-of-china-russia-and-iran-is-driving-weapons-sales-report
Russian exports have been falling partly because China, a major client since the 1990s, has increasingly been building its own weapons, and India, a long-term buyer of Russian weapons, is

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-global-arms-trade/
A combined 63.4 percent of China's conventional weapons sales since 2010 found their way to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Other Asian countries purchased an additional 13.9 percent of Chinese arms. ... Russian arms have poured over the border to China, but this trend is shifting. Russian arms sales to China averaged over 2 billion TIV

https://media.defense.gov/2023/Apr/25/2003208284/-1/-1/0/1398.PDF
China's hunger for weapons imports matches Russia's need and creates a perfect fit between both sides. But close examination of this industry's activities indicates that it is selling China state-of-the-art systems and weapons or licenses, like the license for the SU-27 Fighter, without government authorization. In other words, Russia's

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/politics/us-alarm-china-north-korea-russia/index.html
"By the way, China is not supplying weapons but the ability to produce those weapons and the technology available to do it. So, it is, in fact, helping Russia."

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3139603/how-china-grew-buyer-major-arms-trade-player
After Russia, the next largest sources of weapons for China from 2016 to 2020 were France (9.7 per cent) and Ukraine (6.3 per cent). A Russian Air Force Mil Mi-17 military helicopter. Photo: AFP

https://www.rand.org/nsrd/projects/russian-arms-sales-and-sanctions-compliance/where-russia-markets-and-sells-military-equipment.html
Weapons sales are a means Russia uses to further relations with other countries, influence their political and military leaders, and further its broader foreign and defense policy goals. ... China "Russia may soon approve export variant of Su-57 fighter to China and Turkey," Russian Aviation, April 3, 2019. As of April 28, 2021: https://www

https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2017/china-russia-and-shifting-landscape-arms-sales
China was Russia's largest client between 1999 and 2006, accounting annually for 34-60 per cent of the volume of Russia's exports of major weapons. Exports of major weapons by Russia to China 1987-2016. Data and graphic: SIPRI ... It was the first significant sale of Russian major weapons to China since the mid-2000s, representing a

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-talks-put-nuclear-weapons-standby-boss-tells-uks-telegraph-2024-06-17/
NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and placing them on standby, in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance said on Monday.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/12/us-widens-sanctions-russia-discourage-countries-such-china-doing-business-moscow.html
The U.S. has sanctioned more than 4,000 Russian businesses and individuals since the war began, in an effort to choke off the flow of money and armaments to Moscow, whose superior firepower has

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ukraines-use-us-supplied-weapons-russia-not-limited-near-kharkiv-pentagon-says-2024-06-20/
Ukraine can use U.S.-supplied weapons to hit Russian forces that are firing on Ukrainian troops anywhere across the border into Russia and not just in Russian territory near Ukraine's Kharkiv

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyee61ej8zko
The head of Nato has told the BBC that China should face consequences for supporting Russia's war in Ukraine, if it does not change its ways. Jens Stoltenberg said Beijing was "trying to get it

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/china-sanctions-lockheed-martin-over-taiwan-arms-sales-2024-06-21/
China has imposed sanctions against some Lockheed Martin Corp subsidiaries and senior executives over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, China's foreign ministry said in a statement.

https://apnews.com/article/us-taiwan-china-arms-5eb7e3b35775e813c525a019228ee1a4
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material, the State Department said in a statement that is sure to draw condemnation from China.. The announcement was not unexpected but it comes at a time of high tension between Washington and Beijing