Shouldn't they be happy then that China is taking it upon themselves to block their "intellectual property" from entering the country? I guess that falls outside their pre-installed scripted thinking regarding China.
This is a smart move, as the US was trying position China into middling complacency by allowing them to access Nvidia chips but banning China from accessing the leading edge ones. Banning Nvidia all together prevents this and forces domestic Chinese chip makers to go full throttle on their own innovation.
Did they say which kind of missiles? If they are HIMARS equivalent MLRS missiles which I'm going to guess, 100 a day from this plant would equate to 36,500 missiles a year which is roughly double the 14,000-19000 MLRS missiles the whole United States produces in a year. If they are interceptor missiles of any kind the gap would be even wider.
They withdrew from Afghanistan and then tried their luck against Russia, now they are scaling back from both Europe and Asia and trying their luck in their immediate backyard.
I used to work in a tech store and I can confirm the shift. The stuff that says "Made in China" now are things like laptops, hard drives, drones, TVs, game consoles etc. while basic and cheap products like toys and clothes are now made in other countries.
That's a fair point but I feel like Russia and Iran have already been fairly accommodating towards Azerbaijan with all things considered, to no avail. When Azerbaijan attacked Armenia, Russia let them without any real consequences despite Armenia being a CSTO member (at the time). If Azerbaijan really wants to be a SCO member, I say that they are going to have to make some concrete concessions.
I'm in agreement with India but not because of Pakistan. Azerbaijan is a snake that's collaborating with Israel, Turkey and Ukraine and has no place in the SCO as things stand. They let Israel's F35s fly over their airspace to attack Iran without protest and Aliyev regularly makes anti-communist statements about the USSR.
I remember Trump tried to stir shit with Venezuela in his first term too, it ended with a bunch of tacticool mercenaries getting arrested the moment their boats got to the beach.
American politicians: "We may have our differences, but it's important that we are still able to come together and unite as one."
The differences: