What could the realignment of China, Russia, India and Pakistan mean for defence aerospace markets?
Pakistan is linked to China as its main supplier of combat aircraft. (Photo: Pakistan Air Force)
As traditional Western alliances crumble and the wider strategic and economic background shifts, what does the realignment of relationships between these four countries mean for air power and the defence aerospace market?
Most political alliances exist with a degree of tension. Even those forged in the white heat of existential threat tend to fray once life returns to the status quo ante. This is currently evident in Donald Trump’s policy of dismantling 80 years of general cooperation across NATO and its wider allies.
While much debate in the West has focused on the Atlantic issue and its knock-on effect for Australia, Japan or South Korea, other powerful forces are at work. It has long been anticipated that the populous nations to the south and east of the core G7 would become
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