Ukraine’s powerful military industrial complex gives Beijing a bigger stake in the crisis than meets the eye.
One of the important subtexts in the clash between Russia and the Ukrainian government in Kiev has been the importance to Moscow of the significant and well-developed Ukrainian military-industrial complex, located primarily in eastern and southern Ukraine. According to SIPRI data, Ukraine was the world’s eighth largest arms exporter between 2009 and 2013, and Ukraine’s military-industrial complex is clearly one reasonMoscow does not want to let go of the country.
Read more here.
