• About us
  • Columnists
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
  • rightlog is now TFIPOST
TFI Official Merchandise
हिन्दी
Monday, January 25, 2021
TFIPOST
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    Hindu, West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee,

    Mamata’s months of effort to secure the Hindu vote fall like a house of cards with her rants against ‘Jai Shri Ram’

    Rahul gandhi, tamil Nadu, Congress, China

    Translator literally faints after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Don’t need Army, we need labour to protect India from China’ speech

    Amit Shah, vaccine, COVID-19

    “Let’s have a duel,” Amit Shah rips into media, NGOs and opposition who are trying to create an anti-vaccine narrative

    SFJ, Khalistani, farmers protests

    Khalistani terrorists in the garb of farmers have planned to attack Delhi’s power grid on 26th of Jan

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    Minimal investments in hospitality, tourism, and Auto sector but India’s FDI touches record high in just 2 quarters

    Minimal investments in hospitality, tourism, and Auto sector but India’s FDI touches record high in just 2 quarters

    Adani, Total, Reliance

    Adani leads India’s alternate energy revolution as Total SE makes a mammoth $2 Billion investment

    Bengaluru, IT Sector, tech

    Bengaluru leaves behind London and many other European cities to become the leading tech hub

    plan

    Is It Possible to Get Affordable Term Plan Quotes?

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    india indian army ladakh drones

    Amid standoff with China, India puts the Ladakh region under drone surveillance. More Made-In-India drones to follow

    drdo

    For 6 decades DRDO was not up to the mark. Today it is making one missile after another. What really changed

    ghatak drone

    GHATAK- How India’s stealth combat drone programme promises to make it a military superpower

    Turkey, US, Russia

    Turkey may be sanctioned by US for using F-16s as target practice for Russian S-400s

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    UK, India, G7

    Ahead of Biden presidency, UK invites India to G7 summit amid talks of expansion

    India, China, Al-Qaeda

    China stops India from heading Al-Qaeda sanctions committee that would have given it immense leverage over Pakistan

    Africa, India, Chinese, vaccine

    As Africa distrusts the Chinese vaccine, India has the golden opportunity and the perfect resources to expand its soft power

    France, India, EU

    France invites India to join European naval missions in the Persian Gulf, the most important oil route in the world

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    sister nivedita

    Sister Nivedita – The friend of all

    Tanishq

    A stupid Ad and a dumb explanation: What Tanishq lost in last 48 hours?

    Coco island, islands, Nehru

    Nehru’s massive strategic blunder – How Nehru gave Coco Islands to Burma that China later grabbed

    Turkey, Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia is not the only one: Turkey has a shameful history of desecration

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    whatsapp signal brian acton

    He was forced to sell WhatsApp to Facebook. Now, he has come back with Signal to dethrone WhatsApp

    fan

    Here’s Why Finding the Right Ceiling Fan is Important

    coolie no. 1

    This is not even about nepotism; Coolie No. 1 remake is plain horrible and a huge insult to Govinda

    ajinkya rahane

    Ajinkya Rahane – One of the best test captains India NEVER had

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
No Result
View All Result
TFIPOST
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    Hindu, West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee,

    Mamata’s months of effort to secure the Hindu vote fall like a house of cards with her rants against ‘Jai Shri Ram’

    Rahul gandhi, tamil Nadu, Congress, China

    Translator literally faints after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Don’t need Army, we need labour to protect India from China’ speech

    Amit Shah, vaccine, COVID-19

    “Let’s have a duel,” Amit Shah rips into media, NGOs and opposition who are trying to create an anti-vaccine narrative

    SFJ, Khalistani, farmers protests

    Khalistani terrorists in the garb of farmers have planned to attack Delhi’s power grid on 26th of Jan

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    Minimal investments in hospitality, tourism, and Auto sector but India’s FDI touches record high in just 2 quarters

    Minimal investments in hospitality, tourism, and Auto sector but India’s FDI touches record high in just 2 quarters

    Adani, Total, Reliance

    Adani leads India’s alternate energy revolution as Total SE makes a mammoth $2 Billion investment

    Bengaluru, IT Sector, tech

    Bengaluru leaves behind London and many other European cities to become the leading tech hub

    plan

    Is It Possible to Get Affordable Term Plan Quotes?

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    india indian army ladakh drones

    Amid standoff with China, India puts the Ladakh region under drone surveillance. More Made-In-India drones to follow

    drdo

    For 6 decades DRDO was not up to the mark. Today it is making one missile after another. What really changed

    ghatak drone

    GHATAK- How India’s stealth combat drone programme promises to make it a military superpower

    Turkey, US, Russia

    Turkey may be sanctioned by US for using F-16s as target practice for Russian S-400s

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    UK, India, G7

    Ahead of Biden presidency, UK invites India to G7 summit amid talks of expansion

    India, China, Al-Qaeda

    China stops India from heading Al-Qaeda sanctions committee that would have given it immense leverage over Pakistan

    Africa, India, Chinese, vaccine

    As Africa distrusts the Chinese vaccine, India has the golden opportunity and the perfect resources to expand its soft power

    France, India, EU

    France invites India to join European naval missions in the Persian Gulf, the most important oil route in the world

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    sister nivedita

    Sister Nivedita – The friend of all

    Tanishq

    A stupid Ad and a dumb explanation: What Tanishq lost in last 48 hours?

    Coco island, islands, Nehru

    Nehru’s massive strategic blunder – How Nehru gave Coco Islands to Burma that China later grabbed

    Turkey, Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia is not the only one: Turkey has a shameful history of desecration

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    whatsapp signal brian acton

    He was forced to sell WhatsApp to Facebook. Now, he has come back with Signal to dethrone WhatsApp

    fan

    Here’s Why Finding the Right Ceiling Fan is Important

    coolie no. 1

    This is not even about nepotism; Coolie No. 1 remake is plain horrible and a huge insult to Govinda

    ajinkya rahane

    Ajinkya Rahane – One of the best test captains India NEVER had

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
No Result
View All Result
TFIPOST
No Result
View All Result
  Newswire
OnePlus Buds Z limited edition launched in India 23 mins ago
BAFTA set to push Indians create world-class games 23 mins ago
Israel opens embassy in UAE (Ld) 23 mins ago
‘Youth must be made aware of voter registration’ 32 mins ago
India among top 10 hit by climate change: Germanwatch 38 mins ago
World leaders to gather virtually for Davos Agenda meeting 38 mins ago
Next
Prev

Does Russia love China? No. In fact it would love to give China a good beating

China and Russia are allies because of helplessness, authoritarianism and their shared hatred for the USA. Otherwise, the ties are riddled with distrust.

Yash Joshi
by Yash Joshi
11 June 2020
in Asia Pacific
0
Xi Jinping, Russia, China, Vladimir Putin, Defence, J-11, Su-27
185
SHARES
1.9k
VIEWS
Sharre via FacebookShare via Twitter

Russia over the years has emerged one of India’s closest allies despite India also being close to the USA, at a time when Russia is under crippling American sanctions. As the world battles a China-made pandemic, India has shown a decisive inclination towards the US-backed group looking to punish China for its sins especially after the intense border stand-off at the LAC. On the other hand, Russia has sided with China as there are misplaced fears that India will end up losing its all-weather ally, Russia.

While Russia and China have good bilateral relations but there is a prevalent myth that a strong friendship exists between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The only commonality between the two countries is their affinity for authoritarian regimes and the way China is stealing defense technology from Russia, it is only a matter of time before the bubble of goodwill bursts.

Russia is under crippling US sanctions which have severely dented its economy and is becoming poorer by the day. Russia has one of the best defense manufacturing capabilities but it’s unable to sell it to nations, as America has labeled Russia as an “adversary” under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which has also been applied on countries like North Korea and Iran and effectively means that any major trade with these countries is problematic for countries that value the USA’s favour and friendship.

Instances of countries defying the US sanctions are extremely few and rare. In October 2018, when India inked the historic agreement worth US $5.43 billion with Russia to procure four S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile defence system, incidentally the most powerful missile defence system in the world, the US threatened India with sanctions over its decision to buy the S-400 missile defense system from Russia.

However, the US decided against placing sanctions on India keeping in mind the disastrous effect that it would have on the bilateral relationship between the two countries with the sanctions would have forced India to tilt towards Russia, something which the US couldn’t afford. The US administration made note of the fact that India was already reeling from the decision to restrict crude oil imports from Iran and hence, decided against placing sanctions on India.

As the US started an economic and diplomatic onslaught against China, it was only natural for China and Russia to align strategically and step up their co-operation. However, not everything is hunky-dory between Russia and China.

China is stealing Russia’s Military technologies 

Russia is by far China’s biggest arms supplier as the country accounted for 70% of Beijing’s arms imports between 2014-2018. Such is Russia’s desperation that it is also selling its most advanced weaponry to China as in 2015, sold six of its S-400 anti-aircraft systems, and 24 of its Su-35 fighter jets for a whopping $5 billion.

However, this hasn’t stopped China from doing what it does best: Steal. Rostec which state-owned defense conglomerate has accused China earlier this year of stealing its intellectual property.

“Unauthorized copying of our equipment abroad is a huge problem. There have been 500 such cases over the past 17 years. China alone has copied aircraft engines, Sukhoi planes, deck jets, air defense systems, portable air defense missiles, and analogues of the Pantsir medium-range surface-to-air systems,” said Yevgeny Livadny, Rostec’s chief of intellectual property projects.

China’s modus operandi is simple, buy a few jets from Russia which they can reverse engineer and make a copy which will be mass-produced for its military and allies like Pakistan. Russia can only disdain about this fact as it has been crippled by American sanctions and will be left nowhere to go if it decides to stop telling arms to China.

China being true to its characteristics has a history of stealing technology from Russia. During the 90s where it purchased the elite Su-27 fighter jets and S-300 missile systems from Russia, it reverse engineered and came up with J-11 fighter jet and HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles which were nothing but a blatant copy of their Russian counterparts. In 2017, China rolled out the fifth-generation Chengdu J-20 fighter jets which are not only copies of Russia’s SU-57E but also technologically superior.

Back then, in the absence of American sanctions, Russia severely curtailed its arms exports to China as from accounting to 60% of Russian arms exports in 2005, Russia’s arms exports to China fell to 8.7% by 2012 and has now witnessed a rise again in the backdrop of sanctions over its actions in Ukraine in 2014.

Russia has tried, but in vain, to stop China from stealing its technologies as from pushing for bulk buying by China instead of just a few samples to attempting to earn royalties through the Chinese copies, Russia has done it all with little results.

“[Technology theft] is a shared problem for all companies who do business in China, but there haven’t been any cases of reverse engineering causing anyone turning away from the Chinese market — the most valuable market in the world,” said Vasily Kashin, a senior fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russia had been reluctant to sell the S-400 Triumf anti-missile system to China, but it did nonetheless purely as a compromise as, to put it bluntly, Moscow really needs the money.

Border dispute due to ambiguity

Much like India and China where there is a lot of ambiguity along the LAC, China similarly likes to claim a lot of ambiguous regions along its border with Russia. The two countries were on an undeclared military conflict for seven months in 1969 until a ceasefire was signed. As a result of the war, China gained control of various islands and in the Chinese Communist Party’s version of the military conflict describes the conflict as a Soviet aggression against China. Although territorial disputes remain on the back-burner since 2004, that may change given China’s tried and tested expansionist motives.

Chinese investments in the Far-East:

This is where misunderstanding and territorial tensions continue to exist between the two Red powers. This sparsely populated Russian territory boasts of abundant natural resources, and traditionally looks at it as vulnerable to Chinese influence or even colonialisation.

Today, China is eager to invest here out of its hunger for natural resources, but Russia wants to counter this dependence on China that was also writing on the wall with India’s US $1 billion line of credit to Russia for development of the Far East region.

The other huge bone of contention that will only worsen in time is China’s increasing influence in Central Asia which has historically been Russia’s sphere of influence after the breakup of the Soviet Union. As China furthers its BRI plans here, Russia is closely watching.

There is enough evidence that China and Russia are allies because of helplessness, affinity for authoritarian regimes and their shared hatred for the USA. It is only a matter of time before the friendship bubble is burst as China is fast becoming a defence manufacturer in its own might as it looks to export China-made defence equipment to other countries. In this case, Russia will be the biggest loser as cheap copies of its technology will be sold around the world by China. Putin is not someone who likes to cower down and will certainly not tolerate China’s antics beyond a point.

Tags: ChinaDefenceJ-11RussiaSu-27Vladimir PutinXi Jinping
Share185TweetSend
Previous Post

3000 items, Rs 1 lakh crore target – The most powerful body of traders in India prepares to jolt China

Next Post

Thanks to Congress’ misfortunes, Ashok Gehlot is a paranoid man. He fears a coup by BJP any moment

Yash Joshi

Yash Joshi

Aspiring Civil servant ,hell bent on bringing about a positive change in India .

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms of use and Privacy Policy.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

  • Most Read
  • Latest
Xi Jinping, coronavirus, Shinzo Abe, china, Japan, coornavirus, COVID-19, Wuhan Virus

‘Pack up and get out of there,’ Japan to spend $2.2 billion to get Japanese companies to exit China

9 April 2020
ajay devgn karan johar

The man who bullied the Bully – How Ajay Devgn made Karan Johar’s monopoly a joke and forced him to apologize

22 June 2020
Huawei, China, Trump, USA, Xi Jinping

‘Our survival is at stake now,’ Chinese Telecom giant Huawei crumbles after US ban on Semiconductor exports

19 May 2020
T-Series Sonu Nigam Divya Khosla Kumar Bhushan Kumar

T-Series forced to take down Atif Aslam’s video, Divya Khosla trolled. T-Series has a bad day in office

25 June 2020
Hindu, West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee,

Mamata’s months of effort to secure the Hindu vote fall like a house of cards with her rants against ‘Jai Shri Ram’

25 January 2021
Rahul gandhi, tamil Nadu, Congress, China

Translator literally faints after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Don’t need Army, we need labour to protect India from China’ speech

24 January 2021
Amit Shah, vaccine, COVID-19

“Let’s have a duel,” Amit Shah rips into media, NGOs and opposition who are trying to create an anti-vaccine narrative

24 January 2021
SFJ, Khalistani, farmers protests

Khalistani terrorists in the garb of farmers have planned to attack Delhi’s power grid on 26th of Jan

24 January 2021

Popular This Week

Arnab Goswami, Modi, Pulwama Attack
Trending

It was not just Arnab but 1.3 Billion Indians who knew that PM Modi was going to do something “big” after the Pulwama attack

by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
18 January 2021
Imran Khan, Balakot Airstrike, Pakistan, PM Modi
Trending

Imran Khan was trying to “rip into PM Modi”, ended up accepting that IAF bombed the poop out of Pakistan

by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
18 January 2021
China, vaccines, India
Trending

China finally admits that it lost the vaccine war to India

by Yash Joshi
22 January 2021
Tandav, social media, ali abbas zafar
Trending

As Tandav director issues a sorry excuse of an apology, its stars share memes on social media

by Abhinav Singh
20 January 2021
PM Modi, Shah Faesal
Trending

Shah Faesal beats the most seasoned Bhakts in worshipping Prime Minister Modi

by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
23 January 2021

©2021 TFI Media Private Limited

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
TFI Official Merchandise
हिन्दी
  • About us
  • Columnists
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
  • rightlog is now TFIPOST

©2021 TFI Media Private Limited