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Earlier, the relevant departments of the mainland announced that they would launch comprehensive sanctions against Lockheed Martin, an important company in the US military-industrial complex.
In the future, the company will not be able to engage in normal business activities in China, nor will it be able to maintain business cooperation with Chinese enterprises.
This is devastating news for Lockheed Martin.
But there are many people in the country who believe that it is useless for us to sanction Lockheed Martin, our sanctions will only be superficial, what the company should do or will do.
So for what purpose did we sanction this top U.S. arms company?
And why do some people think that China's sanctions are meaningless? Let's give you a brief introduction today.
1. Lockheed Martin is involved in US arms sales
In fact, the mainland will sanction Lockheed Martin, mainly because this enterprise is one of the most important military-industrial cooperation enterprises in the United States.
It has a very huge reputation in the United States and is a core member of the American military-industrial complex.
Many of the weapons in service that the U.S. military is equipped with are also designed and produced by Lockheed Martin.
For example, the Patriot series of missiles, as well as the most advanced fighter F35 in the US Air Force, are designed and produced by the company.
Lockheed Martin not only has commercial activities in the United States, but also maintains arms cooperation with many countries around the world.
Therefore, Lockheed Martin is also known as one of the most influential and largest arms companies in the world.
According to common sense, there is no contradiction between Lockheed Martin and us.
The problem, however, is that the company has to mix politics with business issues and maintain cooperation with the United States.
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In the past few years, the United States has been maintaining various illegal contacts with the Taiwan authorities, and the United States has even signed some military cooperation agreements with the Taiwan authorities.
This violates the three joint communiqués of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, and Lockheed Martin is the main target of these arms cooperation agreements.
For example, in 2020, the United States is preparing to export a batch of Patriot series missiles worth $620 million to Taiwan Province, and these missiles will be produced and exported by Lockheed Martin.
The Americans prefer to sell these Patriot missiles, in fact, in order to gain more profits for Lockheed Horse.
After all, if they help Loma open up the market, they will make money, and the more money they have, they will be able to design more advanced equipment and help the US military to upgrade its technology.
But this is a clear provocation against us, the Taiwan issue is China's internal affair, and we will not allow any country to meddle in the Taiwan issue.
Moreover, Taiwan Province is only a local provincial-level administrative region of China, so why should the United States and Lockheed Martin bypass our official authorities and directly contact the Taiwan authorities?
This was intolerable, so the Chinese side reacted quickly.
We explicitly warned the United States not to provoke, but the United States, for its part, ignored China's warnings.
In the end, we took countermeasures when we could not bear it anymore and decided to add Lockheed Martin to the Entity List, which is a legitimate way for us to protect our national rights and interests.
After talking about why sanctions were imposed on Lockheed Martin, let's talk about why some Chinese people think that such sanctions are useless.
This is mainly because China itself is also a large arms country, and we have the ability to design and produce large quantities of arms on our own.
Moreover, Sino-US relations are not good at present, so the US Lockheed Martin company does not have an arms market in China, and their products cannot be sold in China.
So if we don't allow Lockheed Martin to enter the Chinese market, won't there be no way to do them much harm on the surface?
Therefore, some people think that our counter-sanctions against the company are loud thunder and small raindrops, and they are fooling the people.
But such a statement is not correct in itself, and the problem has to be looked at a little more long-term.
In fact, our sanctions against Lockheed Martin are hitting them by seven inches.
Now Loma has really felt what chronic death is.
In order to understand the strength of the mainland's sanctions, we have to look at it from another angle, which is the supply of resources.
Second, Lockheed Martin cannot do without China
Objectively speaking, Lockheed Martin really has no commercial interests in China, and they do not sell weapons like China.
But that doesn't mean the Chinese market isn't important to the company.
The company has two dependencies on China, one is parts dependence and the other is resource dependence.
Let's start by understanding what a part dependency is.
China is currently the world's largest manufacturing country, and China's manufacturing industry is at a high level.
As a result, Lockheed Martin also has to buy parts from China when producing certain advanced weapons, including their F35 fighter jets.
As early as 2022, some media exposed that the alloy magnet elements used on the F35 fighter are 100% made in China.
And such elements are necessary parts for the production of the F35 fighter.
So now that we are sanctioning Lockheed Martin, won't they be able to buy parts from China anymore?
Many people always think that the United States is 100% autonomous in its weapons, but this idea is wrong.
The weapons developed by the United States may be technically their own, but when they are produced, it is indispensable to use foreign parts.
After all, after the end of the Cold War, the United States has moved towards the hollowing out of its industry, and the domestic manufacturing industry in the United States has shrunk rapidly.
Today's United States is not even an industrial country in the strict sense of the word, and its development currently depends on the export of resources, agricultural products, and various financial industries.
As a result, although the US military industrial enterprises still have extremely strong design capabilities and can design world-class weapons, they cannot build them.
Every time a weapon is produced, parts need to be found all over the world.
In the era of globalization, relations between countries are relatively stable, and they can indeed buy parts.
This is the fundamental reason why the United States dares to hollow out its industry with great fanfare.
But now that the United States has closed the door to globalization with its own hands and wants to fight a trade war with China, then there will be a big problem in the supply of parts for American weapons.
Because the military industrial enterprises in the United States have found that there seems to be no country in the world that can provide them with high-quality industrial parts and components as stably as China.
After losing the support of Chinese parts, the weapons produced by Lockheed Martin also had quality problems.
The US media has previously published reports that more than 100 F35 fighters produced by the company have been rejected by the Pentagon.
And these aircraft are because of the poor level of parts, so the quality can not meet the standard.
In addition to the parts crisis, there is also a resource crisis.
For a large country, it is necessary to use rare earths in the design and production of advanced weapons, and China itself is the main exporter of rare earth production and refining.
Now that China has Lockheed Martin on the Entity List, they can't buy large quantities of rare earths from China.
Without rare earths, many of the weapons and equipment designed and produced by the company cannot be manufactured, and even if they do, there will be a big gap between the actual performance and the expected performance.
Therefore, China's counter-sanctions against Lockheed Martin, a US arms company, are by no means useless, as many people say, but very useful.
A global arms company like Loma is now in the stage of slow bleeding with a knife, and it may not be able to hold on at any point.
Third, it is impossible for the United States to decouple from China
Judging from the fact that China's sanctions against top US arms companies such as Loma can have such a great effect, it can also be seen that the United States has been shouting about decoupling from China in recent years, which is completely a fool's dream.
At the stage when the United States itself has completely hollowed out its own industry, they need China's manufacturing industry, and even the American military industry needs China's manufacturing industry.
If you have to make trouble with China, the final result will only be adversely affecting the US economy itself.
The United States has been talking about it with China for several years, but American companies are still investing in the Chinese market because of the deep integration of the Chinese and American economies.
And the United States seems to have forgotten that the economic situation of the two countries is clearly better for China now.
All China needs is some U.S. tech industry, but these things are not necessary.
After all, the United States is not willing to give and teach us, so we will study it ourselves.
A few years ago, the United States wanted to jam China's neck in semiconductors, and China built a complete set of semiconductor industrial lines through its own efforts.
Let the United States know that it is impossible to lock China down.
On the other hand, in the United States, the vast majority of daily products in the American market are made in China, and the Apple mobile phones used by Americans are also made in China.
Because the level of manufacturing in other countries is very poor, such as India.
The yield rate of products made in India is very low, and it is impossible to achieve the level of made in China in the short term.
Therefore, those companies that have invested in the Indian market under the influence of the US government have finally returned to the Chinese market, or have begun to find third-party alternative markets around the world.
In the current international situation, China has been deeply integrated into the international system, and the United States' attempt to drive China out of the international system has no chance of success.
Even he himself can't do without China.
epilogue
After years of development and layout, China is actually much stronger than many people think.
Our every move can often get great international attention, and this is the influence that a major country should have.
Moreover, the Chinese market is so huge, and if we do anything to any American company and do not allow them to do business in the Chinese market, it will be a devastating blow to these American companies.
Take Apple, for example.
And China does not do this, mainly because we are a responsible power and do not want to completely tear our faces with the United States.
But if the United States has to give it a step, then China cannot be blamed for launching a counterattack.
References:
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