#ChinaUS
This article says that US military buys surveillance cameras from China. In reality, it's not only cameras, pretty much the vast majority of spare parts needed by US military come from China. US has banned Huawei but Pentagon obtained a waiver.
theintercept.com/2021/07/20/vid…
This article says that US military buys surveillance cameras from China. In reality, it's not only cameras, pretty much the vast majority of spare parts needed by US military come from China. US has banned Huawei but Pentagon obtained a waiver.
theintercept.com/2021/07/20/vid…
Now when US fighter jets have a quality problem, they blame China for defective spare parts. China isn't even aware that some of the screws it sold to US vendors in bulk found themselves on the US fighter jets. These were normally destined for civilian use of minor importance.
For China, if they knew the spare parts were destined for fighter jets, they would have provided products of military grade and charged a much higher price. It breaks China's heart to see US fighter jets worth hundreds of millions of dollars being scrapped for
defective spare parts. You can't blame China for screwing America for inadvertently selling unadapted screws to the US military.
The US military purchase depends on vendors' affidavit to comply with US sanctions, but all the vendors state with solemnity
The US military purchase depends on vendors' affidavit to comply with US sanctions, but all the vendors state with solemnity
that their products are very very non made in China.
US is in a bad shape if it depends on the enemy's manufacturing for its armament.
US is in a bad shape if it depends on the enemy's manufacturing for its armament.
Imagine the shock and pride of a Chinese village factory that the screws they made meant for assembling Ikea furnitures were used on US fighter jets and inadvertently destroyed enemy's bomber jets.
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