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Stop the CCP’s Support of Russia’s Drone Wars

Stop the CCP’s Support of Russia’s Drone Wars
Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a residential building destroyed following a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 4, 2025. Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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China’s involvement in Russia’s drone war against Europe surged from May to August. Beijing’s export approval of everything a battle drone needs—from fiber-optic cables to overcome electronic warfare (EW), to lithium-ion batteries necessary to keep the drone flying for extended distances—is facilitating Russia’s war not only against Ukraine, but potentially against NATO countries in Europe’s north and east.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
Author
Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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