This opportunity focuses on how Russia and China use sales of advanced conventional weapons to generate revenue, exert influence, and create defense dependencies. It highlights the effects on countries that bought these systems, which are now seeing them used in Ukraine and facing production and supply shortages. It also examines how sanctions have pushed Russia to rely on China for materials, technology, and logistics, deepening their defense-industrial collaboration. The program seeks anal… Show More

Proliferator states, such as Russia and China, increasingly use the sale of their advanced conventional weapons (ACW) systems as a means to obtain financial resources, exert malign influence, and create strategic defense dependencies. At the same time, countries with existing ACW contracts are … Show More