NATO has accused Beijing of being a “decisive enabler” of Moscow’s ongoing war. The case of Oree Laser, now sanctioned by the U.S., shows how China is helping Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization leaders summit on July 3 in Astana, Kazakhstan. When NATO this month accused China of being a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the bloc wasn’t referring to Chinese tanks, or ammunition, or troops.instead pointed to Chinese transfers of “dual use” equipment, like sophisticated machine tools, that have been used to make Russian weapons.
Russia “has become completely dependent from supplies of all types of machine tools and their parts from China,” said Pavel Luzin, a visiting scholar at Tufts University and an expert on the Russian armed forces. Still, analysts say Beijing, which tightly controls its private sector, has allowed companies to continue doing any business it wants with Russia — a relationship that is working for both Russia and China.“ knows that its strategic partnership with China will likely be a lasting one, which gives it confidence to focus on its confrontation with NATO,” said Cheng Chen, a professor of political science and an expert on Russia-China ties at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Before the invasion, it sourced these tools from European, Japanese, South Korean and other manufacturers. But many of those supply lines have been cut off, analysts say, either because of sanctions or concerns about their application for military purposes. There has been “little incentive to crack down hard as its strategic competition with the U.S. continues to heat up,” said Chen of the University at Albany, SUNY.
Oree Laser officials had been preparing to go to Chicago in September for the International Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest trade fair of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. It posted on its YouTube page,The Association for Manufacturing Technology, which organizes the trade show, canceled Oree Laser’s participation after seeing it was sanctioned by the Treasury.
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