Comments on: Why China Snubs Russia Arms

By: Peter Pan

Peter Pan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:27:59 +0000

Copying is a natural act of conservation.
Why reinvent the wheel when you can copy…less wastage in time,material personnel.
In the car industry, it is fairly rampant.Just look around and you will see that all the latest model cars has certain features that look alike, like the BMW wedge tail,the front and tail lights,body sculpture etc.
In fact, you cannot get away from the feeling that they look alike!!!

By: wasantha

wasantha — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:36:20 +0000

it is not a shame. you wear trouncers invented by great Chinese people.

By: Yang tsup

Yang tsup — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:08:55 +0000

russia can look on other nation to sell it arms.. and must keep refusing to sell their most advance weapons to china.

By: child

child — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:03:12 +0000

@frank
so, china proud of copying other’s tech..
what a shame..

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:54:18 +0000

The reason that China is the longest surviving civilization on this earth is because Chinese people’s capabilities and willingness to learn from other people fast.

If that means Chinese has to copy from others, so be it. Sooner or later, they will have to copy from Chinese.

Take a look as China’s history. Chinese are not the strongest people. Not stronger than Huns. However, by learning from Huns, Chinese drove them out of Asia.

Tibet was far stronger and larger than China. Look where they are today.

Same can be said about Manchu and Mongol.

Chinese did not invent trains. Today, China has the longest and the fastest railways on earth.

Chinese did not invent cars. Today, China produces more cars than anybody else.

Just wait and see the great resurrection of a great nation is happening.

By: Matrioshka

Matrioshka — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:20:49 +0000

‘Joint-venture’ is a mutual thing, and more so when it comes to paperworks. China getting screwed on a couple of major military development can only point to one thing – possibly due to ’slip-ups’ in contract documentations & legal paper works.

If China wants to prevent getting screwed on int’l JVs, then it should train the a batch of future whiz kids on legalese works & nurtured them on nuances of int’l laws & contracts. China is solid on the diplomatic strategies & its intricacies but unfortunately as of present, weak on world class Laws & Contract formations.

By: YiJiun

YiJiun — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:10:10 +0000

Is that the J-20? Or are you refering to latest generation in development?
Actually, Russia’s greatest mistake is to take advantage of this potential greatest ally. Looks like it still hasn’t come round to why the former Soviet Union disintegrated so terribly! Don’t underestimate the role of China which can add great value to the Soviet Union if it were an ally. Just do the Math: to have an ally to strengthen you becoming a foe which you have to waste defence money guarding. It has doubling effect. Worse is that this foe joins the US and the effect multiplies being of close proximity in geographic terms and in the past, you can focus on Europe, now you got pinced both to the East and West!

Looks like Russia is doomed to fail.

By: Slipknot

Slipknot — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:42:50 +0000

Listen. Rusia already tried many times. 1. in 2004 Russia invited China to joint develope the PAK-FA. 2. Russia tried again. 3. Russia invited China to develope S-400 in 2002.

Result. China funded S-400 but got no tech. China got skrewed.

In 2007 China REFUSE to join the PAK-FA. Because China know it will get skrewed again. This is why the PAK-FA got delay for 4 years until recently india start to fund it.

Russia wants to invite but Russia is not Sincere and trustworthy. China knows that better.

This isy why China is sticking to its own 5th generation fighter program and trust me, you have no idea how much money they are spending on it. They have the money, talents and equibments to build it. When it came out, there will be no warnings. It will just came OUT!

By: Slipknot

Slipknot — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:32:25 +0000

Yes, but that day will soon come to an end. Within 5 years. Just watch!

By: UBOAT

UBOAT — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:11:03 +0000

The article was fair enough and some info is wrong, China for its airforce does depend on russian engines but china has alternate plans working on different engines avionics and their immense investment in r&d their technology is equally superior to the so called superior technology that russian was unwilling to provide thus the out come is russia losing export markets. It is already projected that by 2015 China would have superior fighter engines/airlines-engines/Warships/military vehicles-tanks planes and other weapons and by 2020 China eliminate Russia as the world’s second largest military good’s export.
So a decade is not a big deal for China all focus is on developmental work and R&D. What will be the outcome when china has its own airlines/its own better tanks/its own equal to S-500 missiles/Its own superior ground radars-AESA radars for fighter jets/better satellites and communication equipment and vice versa not to forget its own military transports and AWACS. I see the demise of Russian arms market in atleast 12 years more as Its not about soviet has stuff of soviet era infact they still are still 86% using their own soviet era technologies thus the article saying russians have great stuff not for sale is very limited in production since russia has not much cash to develop produce and invest in r&d while China has one thing that is Cash $$$ to invest and that is making them stronger day by day. I would assume in 12 Years China would be second in the market eliminating russia thus bringing them to the 3rd position.