Sexual Chocolate
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I have no idea but I'm gonna guess generally "no", they're probably won't suddenly pull a fast one while they benefit from Russian tech in planes, radar and missiles. They've been tight on defense for decades and trying to jew the Slavs over a few hundred tanks or plane sales is less important than having an ally able to fight off the Empire.I'll be very interested to see what conditions China has on the sale of those items. The cynic in me wonders if China won't let them build up their defense sector too much, instead preferring to get the Russians to just outright buy hardware. It would be a convenient way to reduce competition to Chinese military hardware on the open market as well.
Steel is no biggie, the reason there are more steel plants in India and China is because those countries are still going thru their first round of mass urbanization, need lots of rebar and whatnot. Western countries don't, they have an excess of scrap metal (a lot of which gets sold off to China and India) and can recycle most of their domestic needs.The biggest thing is steel. It's mostly street shitters and cat cookers on this list
US Navy vessels use high grade specialist steels made in the USA

Where China has infiltrated US/Nato supply chains is electronics. A lot of them turned out to be counterfeit, as anybody who has tried to buy retro computer parts from eBay could have warned them. Because even current Western military tech tends to rely on ancient chips that may no longer be made by their original manufacturer (Eurofighter is still rocking the Motorola 68020 as seen in the Apple Mac II in 1987, F-35 still has G4 Power PC processors, and there's lots more where that came from in specialized subsystems).
What the MIC really needs is software defined architecture. Virtualize as much as possible so the electronic hardware layer is less about highly specialized chips doing discrete things and more about providing the generalized compute power the hypervisor needs to run avionics, comms, radar, fire control, etc. That way you can iterate faster and reduce dependency on obsolete chips. It also means the ultimate goal - a fully networked war machine constantly ingesting real time data from sensors embedded in every satellite, drone, missile, ship, tank and soldier, and intelligent to make its own tactical decisions autonomously at the speed of data without human intervention to slow things down - becomes achievable.
