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Given how much they are still whining about other Western sanctions, especially those covering high tech China cannot reproduce, I don't think they'll be all that relaxed about it.
Is China going to sanction is for providing arms to Israel?
I think they're like 3rd in line to supply arms to israel.
To supply arms? Might want to check the import/export data again.
Looks like China only sold reproduction antiques to Israel:
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/exports/israel/arms-ammunition-parts-accessories
Which makes sense. China isn't producing any weapons systems that Israel would want - they can either make far superior ones themselves, buy them or get them from the US.
Israel's military is so dependent on the US that integrating Chinese weapons would be more hassle than it's worth.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Antony Blinken has warned Xi Jinping at a meeting in Beijing that the US and its European allies are ready to impose new sanctions on Chinese companies if they do not stop supplying material and equipment to the Russian arms industry.
There was no immediate response from Xi, but earlier on Friday China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said “disruptions” could reverse recent improvements in US-China relations and lead to a “downward spiral” of rivalry, confrontation and even conflict.
Speaking to reporters at the end of a three-day visit to China, Blinken, the US secretary of state, acknowledged there had been improvements in relations since a summit in San Francisco in November between Xi and Joe Biden.
However, Blinken made clear that Chinese support of the Russian defence industry, used to fuel Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine, remained a major focus of disagreement, on which the US and its European allies were prepared to act.
“China is the top supplier of machine tools, micro electronics, nitrocellulose, which is critical to making munitions, and rocket propellants, and other dual-use items that Moscow is using to ramp up its defence industrial base,” Blinken said.
Blinken, who was accompanied in Beijing by Todd Robinson, the assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs, held a brief meeting with China’s public security minister, Wang Xiaohong, focused on counter-narcotics.
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