Adm Samuel Paparo, head of US Indo-Pacific Command, has said that China and North Korea aid to Russia poses a security risk in the Indo-Pacific region. He further claimed that Beijing and Pyongyang are aiding Russia in its war against Ukraine while Moscow in turn is assisting their military.
He warned US senators that the military support the three countries are currently sharing is a security risk. Paparo told the US Senate armed services committee that China has provided 70% of the machine tools and 90% of the legacy chips to Russia to help Moscow “rebuild its war machine” in the war with Ukraine. According to him, in exchange, Russia is helping China in technologies, especially in the area of submarines, along with other assistance.
Paparo said North Korea is sending “thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of artillery shells” and thousands of short-range missiles to Russia. The expectation, he said, is that Pyongyang will receive air-defense and surface-to-air missile support. “It’s a transactional symbiosis where each state fulfills the other state’s weakness to mutual benefit of each state,” Paparo said.
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