Information sources:
Observer.com "Worried about being stuck by Huaka's neck, European arms dealers hoarding Chinese cotton"
Global Network "Hype Over-dependence! European Arms Dealers Hoard Chinese Cotton Linters, Some Companies Say They Have Accumulated 3-Year Reserves" 2024.4.9
Global Network "Manipulating the Rumors of "Forced Labor" and Revealing BCI's Smearing of Xinjiang Cotton!", 2021.3.29
Xinjiang Daily, "Xinjiang's total cotton output in 2023 will be 5.112 million tons, accounting for more than ninety percent of the country's total output", 2023.12.26
Preface
On April 7, the Financial Times reported that European arms dealers were frantically hoarding gunpowder cotton, and some even stockpiled for three years.
Because more than 70 percent of Europe's gunpowder cotton is imported from China, these arms dealers seem to be worried about being "stuck".
Could it be that without Chinese cotton, Europe would not be able to make shells?
The EU's dilemma
With the escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the situation in Ukraine is not optimistic.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for a year now, and it doesn't seem to be stopping.
Moreover, the European Union has followed the United States in its continuous expansion of military aid to Ukraine to ensure that Ukraine can sustain itself.
As everyone knows, this will also put the EU in a difficult situation, because it can be seen that the war between Russia and Ukraine is not something that can be stopped for a while.
Then, since the EU wants to provide military assistance to Ukraine, it is bound to provide a large amount of military assistance to Ukraine, and missiles, bullets, and weapons are indispensable.
Therefore, military assistance requires a large amount of financial and human support, and it also requires the continuous production of weapons and ammunition.
However, Thierry Breton, the commissioner of the EU Internal Market, claimed that due to the lack of gunpowder, France, as the leader of the European Union, is no longer able to manufacture enough missiles and artillery shells for its own country.
What's even more ridiculous is that Macron, as the president of France, is also very tough in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict for the sake of his own support rate.
Even on April 11, during a visit to the Eurenco military factory, he said:
"Even if the United States stops supporting Ukraine, Europe will have to agree to provide Ukraine with more than 50 billion euros in military aid. ”
He also said that he would continue to ask French military enterprises to improve production efficiency, and would provide Ukraine with the promised weapons and ammunition on time and on time.
He has even repeatedly released cruel words to Russia, saying that he can even send troops directly to Ukraine to confront Russia.
also on social networking sites, digging out photos of himself boxing, trying to prove his attitude in this way.
But France's own army is not armed enough, how can it help Ukraine?
According to a recent report by the Financial Times, European arms dealers are now frantically hoarding "gunpowder cotton", and some have even hoarded stocks for more than three years.
It may be that they are afraid that future military conflicts will continue to escalate and future variables will be unforeseeable, so they hoard in advance so as not to be "stuck".
So far, the countries of the European Union have promised Ukraine 1 million artillery shells, which will arrive in March 2024.
Now that April is almost over, Ukraine has so far received only half of the shells, about 524,000.
Therefore, the EU's artillery shells for Ukraine's support are far from meeting expectations.
The main reason is because of the "gunpowder cotton" raw materials hoarded by European arms dealers.
So, how much effect does gunpowder cotton have on shells?
What is gunpowder cotton
According to the EU, the reason why the EU did not deliver the promised shells to Ukraine in a timely manner.
The main reason is because of the shortage of "gunpowder cotton".
According to the EU military-industrial complex, because China is a major producer of gunpowder cotton, it basically monopolizes more than half of the European market.
Therefore, Europe's gunpowder cotton is very dependent on Chinese imports.
But because, according to them, some time ago "the deal in gunpowder cotton suddenly stopped", so they did not even deliver the shells promised to Ukraine.
But is that really the case?
The mainland has never issued a ban on the export of gunpowder cotton to the EU, nor has it ever restricted the export of gunpowder cotton to EU countries.
The EU is a thief shouting to catch a thief, and it is obvious that Europe's production capacity has increased again, which has led to a shortage of gunpowder cotton.
Moreover, the main reason is that Europe may not meet the level of military production capacity itself, so it is delaying deliveries.
So, what exactly is the effect of "gunpowder cotton"?
Gunpowder cotton, also known as "nitrocellulose", is mainly used to provide ideal materials for launching pistols, armed guns, artillery, and missiles.
After nitrification of nitric acid, "nitrocellulose" is a colloidal gunpowder made by dissolving nitrocellulose and gelatinizing by mixing a solution of ethanol and ether.
This kind of colloidal gunpowder can ensure the gunpowder energy requirements of pistols, rifles and other weapons, of which nitrocellulose accounts for about 94 to 96 percent, and the nitrogen content will not be less than 12%.
Other ingredients are mainly composed of gelling agent alcohol ether solvent, stabilizer diphenylamine and water, in addition to the gun medicine will also add the polish graphite and passivating agent camphor, so it constitutes "nitrocellulose gunpowder".
Moreover, "nitrocellulose gunpowder" not only has no smoke, but is also very powerful, so it quickly replaced "black powder" and was quickly used in gun making.
And it has been used to this day, and it is also the main material for the production of modern weapons, and it is also a very key core material.
If there is a shortage of nitrocellulose, it will indeed lead to the inability to make shells.
Moreover, good quality "nitrocellulose" will also affect the effectiveness and combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment, so the weapons and guns made by using better "nitrocellulose" will be improved to a certain extent in stability and power, so it is very important.
Therefore, gunpowder cotton is not only a rocket propellant, but also a component of some high explosives.
The origin of this material is mainly the mainland, and the mainland is also very good in the quality of gunpowder cotton, especially the gunpowder cotton made from cotton produced in Xinjiang.
At present, China's gunpowder cotton production accounts for half of the world's production, and the main market is European countries.
Among them, 70% of the European gunpowder cotton market is imported through China.
However, the EU is now saying that there is a "shortage of gunpowder cotton", which is not the time to "boycott Xinjiang cotton" some time ago.
Now you feel like you're restricting them again?
Xinjiang cotton incident
The previous Xinjiang cotton incident was caused by the United States.
The reason why the "Xinjiang cotton incident" has caused such a big impact is actually related to the United States.
It is also normal for the U.S. government to be able to associate "cotton and genocide."
After all, the United States itself is a robber, and during the colonial period when they went to the Americas, they not only enslaved a large number of "blacks" to grow cotton, but also treated blacks like cattle, and did not estimate the life or death of blacks at all.
Not only that, but after landing on the American continent, they also slaughtered millions of Indians, forced Indians to migrate, and caused an unknown number of Indian deaths, which is the real "genocide".
This is also why, the United States and Europe reacted fiercely to the incident of the United States maliciously smearing the mainland's "Xinjiang cotton" incident.
Because "cotton" itself has a certain "attraction" factor for them, they believe that "cotton" and "slavery" or "genocide" can be linked.
This is because, in the short history of the United States for a few hundred years, they have done many evils and caused so many tragic incidents.
Because, in the face of the "Xinjiang cotton incident", they themselves are weak-minded, so they will continue to hype up this aspect.
Because of this incident, a large number of European companies and the United States have jumped out of the "accusation", and they do not plan to import high-quality cotton from Xinjiang, China.
This is because they will associate this cotton with this aspect in their own bones, so they will jump up fiercely, pretend to "solidarity", and "draw a line" one after another.
As everyone knows, cotton in Xinjiang on the mainland is a "high-paying" job and occupation.
In the era when Xinjiang cotton was not mechanized, Xinjiang cotton could attract more than 500,000 cotton pickers on average every year, because in the era of manual collection, a month of cotton picking could be worth several months' wages.
Moreover, at present, Xinjiang cotton in mainland China has long entered the era of mechanization.
Because the large area of sandy soil in Xinjiang is very convenient for the development of industrial production methods, ploughers and seeders have been used to participate in the production of cotton at an early stage.
As a result, the cotton output of Xinjiang in the mainland has reached more than 5 million tons, accounting for most of the cotton production in the mainland and more than 20% of the global cotton production.
Where does slavery come from? Where does genocide come from?
In the face of US suppression
Not only that, as of 2022, there are more than 7,400 professional cotton picking machines in Xinjiang, and more than 80% of the total cotton collected through the machines has been collected.
And the use of basically domestic cotton pickers, and in recent years, unmanned cotton picking machines have also come out.
As the continent is also the world's largest cotton producer, it has the pricing power and has long been the center of the world's textile industry.
A large number of prevention products need to be exported from China to all regions of the world.
Therefore, in the face of US suppression and slander, the mainland has always spoken through strength.
It is precisely because China's strength is getting stronger and stronger that the United States cannot accept it, and the United States, which has mastered world public opinion, wants to strike at Xinjiang cotton through smearing and rumors.
However, it was useless at all, and following the United States to stand in line with Europe, they felt that the cotton production capacity was not enough, so they lifted a stone and shot themselves in the foot.
In fact, it is not only Xinjiang cotton that is the key target of the US government.
The mainland's high-tech industry is also targeted by the U.S. government, and ZTE and Huawei have been maliciously suppressed, smeared, and rumor-mongering by the U.S.
Moreover, in order to crack down on the mainland's semiconductor industry, malicious strategies such as the "Chips Act" and "Entity List" have also been introduced.
However, there are also many vegetarians on the mainland, even in the face of the United States' encirclement and interception.
Huawei's 5G has survived, and Huawei's mobile phones have also survived, not only slapping the US government in the face in August last year.
In the past few days, the Kirin 9010 carried on the Huawei P70 has been released, which has given the US government another heavy blow.
Not only that, but the mainland's new energy vehicle technology is also leading the world, and the intelligent driving technology is one gradient ahead of them.
epilogue
Therefore, this world has never been fair at all, only after you have really strong strength.
Only the Western capitalist countries led by the United States will have a dialogue with us on an equal footing, and the shortage of artillery shells in France has nothing to do with us.
Therefore, the dominance of the world by Western countries has never changed, they have always been like this, but we have become stronger!
Key Sources:
Observer.com "Worried about being stuck by Huaka's neck, European arms dealers hoarding Chinese cotton"
Global Network "Hype Over-dependence! European Arms Dealers Hoard Chinese Cotton Linters, Some Companies Say They Have Accumulated 3-Year Reserves" 2024.4.9
Global Network "Manipulating the Rumors of "Forced Labor" and Revealing BCI's Smearing of Xinjiang Cotton!", 2021.3.29
Xinjiang Daily, "Xinjiang's total cotton output in 2023 will be 5.112 million tons, accounting for more than ninety percent of the country's total output", 2023.12.26