Just watched a documentary of drone warfare in the Ukraine war. Many of the drones presented, that have been developed in the fires of war to meet evolving threats have no equivalents in the West, or their equivalents are orders of magnitude more expensive, and cannot be manufactured en masse.

Most of these drones on both sides, are either lightly modified Chinese designs, or have a very large percentage of Chinese-made components.

China has already managed to dominate a new mode of warfare and make a huge profit from it while supplying both sides of the deadliest modern war in Europe.