EU grows increasingly convinced Russia is producing lethal drones in China

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1. Submission Statement:

   The European Union is growing increasingly convinced that Russia is producing lethal drones in China to prop up the invasion of Ukraine, raising fresh questions on how far Beijing is willing to risk to abide by its “no-limits partnership” with Moscow.
   The mounting concerns focus on a secret weapons programme that Russia has allegedly established in China’s Xinjiang province, which was first brought to light by Reuters in an exclusive investigation published in September.

   The Reuters report described how a subsidiary of Almaz-Antey, a Russian state-owned arms company under EU and US sanctions, had “developed and flight-tested” a new model of a long-range drone “with the help of local specialists.” (The outlet was unable to determine the identity of the specialists but saw documents that confirmed the transfer of the made-in-China drones to the Russian city of Izhevsk)

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3. If only we had the capacity to do something about it. 

4. And whats EU doing about it?

   [While the US and China decouple, the EU and China deepen trade dependencies](https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/while-us-and-china-decouple-eu-and-china-deepen-trade-dependencies)

   China is too valuable for EU right now.

5. Outside of the west it’ll be seen as quite hypocritical of the EU to accuse China of supporting the war in Ukraine while they support a genocide in Gaza. If they decide to levy sanctions on China for this, they won’t have much support and will face a lot of economic backlash, which they cannot afford given the weak state of their economies at the moment.

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