title: The end of a military-industrial triangle: arms-industrial co-operation between China, Russia and Ukraine after the Crimea crisis
abstract: Abstract: Due to a U.S./EU arms embargo that was imposed on China in 1989, China remains excluded from trading with any of the leading arms producers except for Russia and Ukraine. The previously existing military-industrial symbiosis between Ukraine and Russia, however, came to an abrupt end in 2014 with Russia‘s invasion and resulting occupation of Crimea. The sudden breaking off of defense-industrial ties between these two closely interwoven military-industrial complexes offers analysts the u
journal: SIRIUS - Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen