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Russia Warns US Is "Playing With Fire" Over Sanctions The United States has even hit a Chinese military organisation with punishing financial sanctions for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles.World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: September 21, 2018 13:50 ISTMoscow: Moscow said Friday Washington's latest raft of anti-Russian sanctions that also target China undermined global stability, warning the United States against "playing with fire.""It would be good for them to remember there is such a concept as global stability which they are thoughtlessly undermining by whipping up tensions in Russian-American ties," deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said in a statement."Playing with fire is silly, it can become dangerous," he added.Read more at: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-warns-us-is-playing-with-fire-over-sanctions-1919996?pfrom=home-world
U.S. sanctions China for buying Russian fighter jets, missilesLesley Wroughton, Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Thursday for buying fighter jets and missile systems from Russia, in breach of a sweeping U.S. sanctions law punishing Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.The U.S. State Department said it would immediately impose sanctions on China’s Equipment Development Department (EDD), the branch of the Chinese military responsible for weapons and equipment, and its director, Li Shangfu, for engaging in “significant transactions†with Rosoboronexport, Russia’s main arms exporter.The sanctions are related to China’s purchase of 10 SU-35 combat aircraft in 2017 and S-400 surface-to-air missile system-related equipment in 2018, the State Department said.Continued at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/u-s-sanctions-china-for-buying-russian-fighter-jets-missiles-idUSKCN1M02TP
Russia warns US for imposing sanctionsOn Thursday, the United States expanded its sanctions war against Russia to China, for the first time announcing punitive measures against a Chinese military organisation for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles. America-Canada 21 Eylül 2018 Cuma 11:09 https://www.worldbulletin.net/america-canada/russia-warns-us-for-imposing-sanctions-h205939.html
Sort of on topic, this youtube video of the Chinese military: ! No longer availableSouth Korea has some of those big shows similar to above.... but the above, is really impressive, female military in pink?
Impressive, but so was their Olympics ceremony in Beijing. They even look somewhat similar, lots of individuals in nice attire orchestrating in precision.What I saw when visiting for a month in China was hundreds of their military conscripts being used as servants digging alongside a road with spades, just like the old chain gangs of the South.