China is likely to supply weapons to Russia, says CIA chief William Burns. According to American media, these are kamikaze drones and semiconductors – a kind of computer chip that can be used, for example, in rockets.
Not only does the CIA report that China is considering selling weapons to Russia. “The news also comes from several European locations,” says BNR foreign commentator Bernard Hammelburg. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell, for example, also reports it. So obviously the question is whether they all have the same source, but I hope that’s not the case.’
“We have to take Burns very seriously.”
Debatable whether chips are weapons
There is no doubt that kamikaze drones are weapons. But according to Hammelburg it is questionable whether this also applies to the chips. “I think the West will see them as weapons, because without them Russia’s real weapons would not work.”
Not much is clear yet about possible Chinese arms deliveries, but: “We have to take Burns very seriously,” Hammelburg adds. “He’s a man with a huge background and a lot of experience, so he knows what he’s talking about.”
Source: BNR
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