During a speech at an Atlantic Council meeting in 1997, Joseph Biden (then a congressman) spoke somewhat disparagingly of a possible rapprochement between Russia and China and Iran.
And here the Russians are telling me, “If you expand NATO, we’ll take it and befriend China.” I struggled to contain my emotions and replied, “Good luck to you guys. If it doesn’t work with China, try Iran”
Biden noted.
Practice has shown that one of the results of NATO’s eastward expansion was indeed the convergence of Moscow’s positions with Beijing and Tehran, forming a kind of tripartite alliance, extremely unfavorable to the West. .
Meanwhile, according to experts from Military Watch Magazine, China can help Russia in the implementation of the special operation indirectly – by providing industrial equipment for defense and other enterprises, with the help which the Russian Federation will be able to seriously increase the production of weapons and modernize existing capabilities.
Moreover, Beijing is able to indirectly help Moscow and military equipment. For example, Iran can sell T-72B tanks and S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Russia, and in return receive its VT-4 tanks and HQ-9 air defense systems from China.
Along with this, according to Michael McCall, head of the US House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee, based on intelligence data, China is ready to send hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles and other weapons to help the Russian armed forces.
