It may not yet be time for China to be eating the lunch of the USA and France in terms of weapon sales, not until another war erupts between India and Pakistan to showcase Chinese weapons at another level using the J35. As an indication, China has just announced its defense budget increase of about 7%, or US$245 billion for 2025. Of course, the USA and the West are raising a ruckus over the increase as expected. China has no need to ask for their permission to do something to protect itself.
I do not think India is about to embark on another misadventure so soon, after still licking its wounds despite its claims of winning the war but losing its highly touted fighter jets. India probably has not even figure out how those planes were shot out of the sky and still in the daze. Right now, it is engaging in a blaming game with the French, who according to sources, is asking India just to ground their Rafales for the time being.
Meanwhile, China is keeping up support for the Pakistanis, waiting for the next attack from India. It will come, with Modi trying to salvage some of his lost ego.
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Trump has now changed his tune. He is not trying to bring back manufacturing of sneakers and T-shirts. USA workers are too fat and lazy to work in sweatshops as shown by those mocking memes on Tik Tok that the Chinese made. He is now luring manufacturers of military tanks and technology. What about keeping out technology companies like Huawei and BYD and chasing away companies like John Deere, Ford, Harley Davison and now forcing Nvidia to set up a R & D unit in China and Amazon and Walmart setting up headquarters for their operation outside the USA? The narrative does not fit the reality of Trump's actions.
For a start, does the USA really have the skilled workforce for bringing back such high skilled industries? The USA can do that if it changes its education system now to turn out more engineers and scientist, not otherwise. That is going to take years, or even decades. Putting the cart before the horse is not going to fool anybody. And if that was the reason for his tariffs, why try to erect high tariffs on everything besides weapons and technology, which the USA can ill afford to do without? Another con exposed?
Loss of one Rafale is equivalent to the cost of three or more J10s. The total loss of those 5 aircrafts is close to a billion, a very expensive misadventure for India.
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