China is using 'lawfare' to enable Russia's war efforts in Ukraine.
Ukraine is finding it challenging to source drones and drone parts from Chinese suppliers due to new export control restrictions imposed by Beijing, new analysis suggests.. Kyiv loses an estimated 10,000 drones per month, according to an analysis by the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.China sits in the middle of the drone supply chain and controls a majority share of the commercial drone industry as well as the supply of components.
report said China had been assisting Russia with the supply of drones, chips and other critical war-fighting components.'s export controls were creating hurdles for Ukraine, which received $200,000 worth of drones from Chinese companies between January and June this year, according. Russia received $14.5 million in direct drone sales from Chinese companies during the same period, the report said.
Several Ukrainian drone companies and pilots told the newspaper that Chinese companies had stopped supplying parts. Ukrainians were looking for alternative sources, they said. "We have to reinvent more and more complicated supply chains," Maria Berlinska, head of the Victory Drones project in Ukraine, told's unnamed aerial vehicle fleets since the beginning of the war, accounting for up to 67 percent of the parts the Kremlin's armed forces have sourced, according to a research report by the Kyiv School of Economics.
Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department blacklisted 11 new Chinese companies for aiding Moscow and Tehran in securing drone technology. Washington is likely to impose further sanctions on Chinese companies found to be assisting Russia's drone supply and in other critical technologies.These GOP senators voted against the bipartisan bill to keep the government open for 45 days while Congress negotiates a long-term spending bill.
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