{"id":159596,"date":"2026-11-01T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159596"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:00:11","slug":"from-rifles-to-radar-china-upgrades-its-african-arms-trade-as-russia-and-the-west-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159596","title":{"rendered":"From rifles to radar: China upgrades its African arms trade as Russia and the West retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor decades, China has supplied African militaries with small arms and land-based equipment such as armoured vehicles, trucks and artillery.<br \/>\nNow, it is selling them more specialised weapons, including armed drones and electronic warfare systems.<br \/>\nAnalysts noted that China\u2019s African arms sales were shifting qualitatively to air-defence systems, armed drones and electronic warfare gear once dominated by Russia and the West.<br \/>\nIn April, four vehicles identified by defence analysis group Janes as&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3372870\/rifles-radar-china-upgrades-its-african-arms-trade-russia-and-west-retreat\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor decades, China has supplied African militaries with small arms and land-based equipment such as armoured vehicles, trucks and artillery. Now, it is selling&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}