Should China worry more about keeping defence customers than winning new deals?

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A recent Indian think tank report highlights that China should prioritize retaining defense customers over winning new deals amid a resurgence of Russian competition. The report from Takshashila Institution questions the uniform quality of Chinese weaponry and discusses sales challenges.

Retaining existing customers and a potential resurgence of Russian competition may be among the biggest challenges for sales of Chinese weapons systems, according to a report from an Indian think tank. The study, published this month by the Bengaluru-based Takshashila Institution, questioned whether weapons made in China were “foolproof or in muddy waters” and cautioned against the “reductive assumption that Chinese weaponry is uniformly poor in quality”. Instead, the report’s author Anushka...