China is seeking renewed deliveries of advanced weapons from Russia with a $3.5 billion deal for fighters and submarines in the pipeline despite lingering resentment in Moscow over Chinese copying of its military technology.
Russia has not yet confirmed a deal reported last week in China's state media that Moscow had agreed to supply 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and four Amur-class conventional submarines to the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, which would make it the first major arms deal between the two nations in almost 10 years.
The need to order some of Russia's most advanced military hardware indicates that shortcomings remain with some of China's home-grown defense technologies, military analysts said.
"Currently, the two sides are working on the relevant contracts, and the results are likely to be produced by the end of the year," said Vasily Kashin, an expert on Russia's arms trade with China at Moscow's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
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