Russian weapons, that is.  China is copying Russian weapons technology from incoming Russian arms sales, and now attempting to export the copies.   

Russian manufacturers are trying to work out “licensing deals” with the Chinese, but a country, like China, without a rule of law to govern these arrangements is essentially an international pirate.  When the time comes for China to assert itself in Russia’s northeastern territories,  nothing left on the battlefields will be unusable by either side.

Russia, along with Britain and the US are the three largest arms suppliers to the rest of the world.  Whatever the dubious moral issues involved in this matter, Britain surpassed the US in 2008 with a $19 billion sale to Saudi Arabia.  Rock the Casbah.

Over the past five years, the US still exceeds Britain and Russia in total sales, with Britain second, and Russia slipping 25% in 2008 - chiefly because of sales problems with China and India, but also with Russian  failure to perform in an area where it sought a price advantage….after-market services, which are bid lower than either than the US or Britain.

For another look at US/Russian arms sales, and the two countries could collide, Popular Mechanics is the place to visit.