PakistanThere was a magic scene:
On the one hand, China engineers carried encrypted hard drives to do radar calibration for the Xiaolong Block3;
On the other hand, Pakistani officials sent rare earth samples labeled with Pakistan to the United States.
This operation perfectly explains what it means to "have both sides", and also directly breaks the childish question on the Chinese Internet that "Pakistan is iron or not iron"-iron? Iron is used to build airplanes, not brothers.
The personification of the state is the biggest occupational disease of keyboard diplomacy.
Many people on the Internet regard this "sending samples" as the bloody wedding scene of Game of Thrones, crying "betrayal" and "white-eyed wolf". Please, Pakistan is not Guan Yu, and China is not Liu Bei.
Small Country Survival Guide No. 1: Don't write feelings into diplomatic contracts.
India Su-30 upgrading to Israel, the Philippines while buying Chinese vaccines while opening a base to the United States, Turkey with Red Flag 9 bidding to Beijing again to buy S-400 – Earth Village who hasn’t got a little “King of the Sea” operation?
It is true that Islamabad considered 2.8 million tons of poor rare earth as religious, it is called late-brain love.
(B) "core technology" is the protection of the city river, but the protection of the city river also pay the property costs
Beijing indeed left a hand: the most advanced existing phase control radar, the core parameters are directly packed back home every time the calibration is completed, and the factory in Pakistan can not even insert the U disk.
But don't forget that the technical stay is not a one-way cool, but a two-way lease.
What China can obtain may be ten times cheaper than sending a ship to conduct on-site monitoring off the coast of a country.
Let's talk about Hongqi-9. If Pakistan wants to travel an extra 30 kilometers, it will have to pay US$80 million in a "firmware brush fee". It sounds like money grabbing, but compared with Turkey's US$2.5 billion for the S-400 and half of its diplomatic autonomy, 80 million for a "range plus+ no team" package, which is actually a conscience price.
The higher the technical barrier, the higher the rent collection ceiling, but don't forget that the rent contains joint liability for maintenance, upgrades, and accidents-the moat is not dug once and for all, but the mud has to be dug out every day.
“Take two kilos of land back and sell it.”
Washington received the sample and found it a treasure. He turned around and found that his only Mountain Pass mine that could start construction was still using the extraction tank exported from Baotou in 2008, and even the screw model had to be the same as Taobao.
Even more embarrassingly, 82% of U.S. rare earth depends on China, not because there are no mines, but because they don’t want to dig “environmental bombs” in their own backyard.
1 ton of oxide adds 2,000 tons of acid washing waste water, which state lawmaker dares to let environmental organizations live broadcast?
So a world-famous painting appeared: the U.S. Department of Energy wrote a PPT saying that it wanted to "get rid of dependence on China", and the capitalists finished the accounts-building a factory of 1.2 billion yuan, paying back the capital for five years, and buying equipment from China first-and immediately "strategically moved into" Africa to find a cheaper "spare tire".
Islamabad thought it could replace the F-16 upgrade package, but received a basket of used radar parts and a bad check to "reduce 5G cooperation with China."
Summary: You think someone wants to knock your corner, in fact, people just want to blank two kilograms of bricks.
(D) Real warning: it is safe to make the "card neck" a "baby" only
What China-Pakistan military-industrial cooperation should learn most is not how to encrypt parameters, but how to turn technology into an ecosystem that "leaves you and I will be disabled".
France's Safran moved the M88 engine overhaul line to India. On the surface, it was a "technology transfer", but in fact it bound the next 30 years of the life of the Indian Air Force to its own parts;
China Nuclear Power allows Pakistani operators to come to China to study for two years and then pass the exam before they can take up their posts. It may seem harsh, but it has also cultivated 100 "Pakistani nuclear generation" who eat China food and speak Mandarin. If they don't go to China to find their senior brothers, who will they go to?
The most advanced technical control is not to lock the password into the safe, but to make the safe into the beam of the other party's home.
Rare-earth is the same, rather than mocking Islamabad "to go to the gold bowl to eat", than to engage in a joint-venture factory - China to extract technology, the United States to make long-term orders, the Pakistani to go to the original mine, to upgrade the "card neck" to the "collective baby", this is the ultimate play of technological realism.
This scene of sampling by "Barthe" should not be the "no iron" of Islamabad, but the Chinese public opinion that "brothers go together for a lifetime" kindergarten diplomacy.
There are no eternal friends between countries, only eternal balance sheets.
The core technology, of course, is hard currency, but the real shield of the river, is to make the technology in the balance sheet of the other party's "long-awaited stake cost" - want to dismantle, in advance, the reduction of value is ready to hit the pain.
The next time you see the title of "someone holding America's thighs," don't rush up the table, first ask a question:
Is the technology in our hands expensive enough to keep each other unable to pay?
If not, then go back to overtime, talk less and write more code.
If so, welcome to shake hands-after all, making money together is the purest friendship of adults.