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They key moronic 'US says' takeaways:

  • "US officials said that China provided more than 70% of the $900m (£723m) in machine tools – probably used to build ballistic missiles – imported in the last quarter of 2023 by Russia."

"probably" biggus-piggus

It's absurd how they link machine tools precisely to missile manufacturing and so on. Machine tools are involved in practically every industrial process involving technology these days, from kitchen wares to gym equipment to cars to semiconductors and yes, arms manufacturing. But there's no evidence to state that a significant portion of machine tools were then used in military manufacturing, rather than general goods.

  • "They also said that 90% of Russia’s microelectronics imports – used to produce missiles, tanks and aircraft – came from China last year"

Microelectronics... you mean the microelectronics used in the booming commercial tech industry. It's reckless not to clarify alongside 'used to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft', microelectronics are used in 'literally everything else' too.

The very same liberal that will say these and things and then go on to turn a blind eye or defend explicit developer-client relationships between computer manufacturers and arms manufacturers in the US

Another day, another desperate attempt by paper tigers to undermine China's industrial capacity. Good luck attempting sanctions.

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[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Microelectronics

This is giving me a flashback to those US Intel reports of Iraq buying a bunch of PlayStation 2s to build a super computing node or something

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