China will impose sanctions against U.S. aerospace and defence firms Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin for providing weapons to Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday.
The author was all “China doesn’t buy anything from these companies anyways” but I’m more curious what these companies buy from China. How much Chinese steel makes it into these planes and guns and missiles? How much copper, how many chipsets?
China really should pull a US on em by refusing to do business with anyone who does business with these weapons manufacturers. Force the corpos to determine what hurts their pockets more: losing business from defense contractors OR losing the Chinese market and significant portions of their supply chains
Nah let China continue developing using American capital, then pull the rug once BRICS is fully self-sufficient and get the entire global south on board with doing the same. THEN go Cuba style
The author was all “China doesn’t buy anything from these companies anyways” but I’m more curious what these companies buy from China. How much Chinese steel makes it into these planes and guns and missiles? How much copper, how many chipsets?
China really should pull a US on em by refusing to do business with anyone who does business with these weapons manufacturers. Force the corpos to determine what hurts their pockets more: losing business from defense contractors OR losing the Chinese market and significant portions of their supply chains
Fuck it, full Cuba-style embargo: any ship that docks in an American harbour can’t dock in any Chinese harbour for 18 months.
Nah let China continue developing using American capital, then pull the rug once BRICS is fully self-sufficient and get the entire global south on board with doing the same. THEN go Cuba style