China invests billions in military technology for conflict with India and Pakistan

modernization of the Chinese armed forces

China, an emerging military superpower, has not waged a great war for more than four decades. Under the leadership of XI Jinping, however, the country hastily modernized its armed forces and invested resources in the development of complex weapon systems and the latest technologies. In addition, China has also expanded this modernization to Pakistan, which is praised by Beijing for a long time as its "iron -hard brotherland".

armaments imports and strategic partnership

In the past five years, China has delivered 81 % of Pakistan's imported weapons, such as data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri). These exports include advanced combat aircraft, rockets, radar systems and air defense systems, which experts could play a crucial role in any military conflict between Pakistan and India.

The geopolitical effects

"Every conflict between India and Pakistan thus becomes a de facto test environment for Chinese military exports," said Sajjan Gohel, director of international security at the Asia-Pacific Foundation, a Thinktank resident in London. An increasing military cooperation between China and Pakistan are the military of both countries in increasingly complex joint air, sea and land exercises.

American-Indian relationships and geopolitical shifts

India and Pakistan have waged three wars for Kashmir since their independence from Great Britain in 1947. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union supported India while the USA and China supported Pakistan. Now there is a new era of rivalry between great powers over the lengthy conflict between the nuclear armed South Asian rivals.

military clashes and technological developments

with Pakistan, which is largely armed by China, and India, which relates more than half of its weapons from the USA and its allies, any conflict between the two neighbors could effectively become a showdown between Chinese and Western military technologies. After weeks of increasing hostilities, which followed the murder of 26 mainly Indian tourists by armed attackers in the Kashmir region, who was managed by India, India started on Wednesday morning rocket attacks on what it described as a "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan.

Overview of the latest developments in air combat technology

Pakistan meanwhile praised a great victory of his Air Force and claimed that five Indian fighter planes-three Rafales, a MIG-29 and an SU-30-were shot down by his J-10C fighting aircraft during a one-hour fight. "This is now characterized as the most intense aircraft between two nuclear nations," says Salman Ali Bettani, a scientist for international relations at the Quaid i-Azam University in Islamabad. "The argument represented a milestone in the surgical use of advanced Chinese systems."

effects on the international weapons market

The United States remain the largest arms exporter in the world, which makes up 43 % of global arms exports between 2020 and 2024, while China is fourth, with almost two thirds of their arms exports to go to Pakistan. Khan, the defense expert from Toronto, agrees that the shooting, if it is confirmed, could contribute significantly to the promotion of the Chinese armaments industry, since this may result in "powers in the Middle East and North Africa", which normally have no access to "the most modern western technology".

This could be a powerful advertising for China, because it will raise the question: How strong is the opponent really? This could seriously think of both countries that want to buy fighter planes and China's regional rivals.