“I think clearly a lesson for China here is that they need massive inventories of weapons,” Lyle Goldstein, the director of Asia engagement at the Washington, DC, think tank Defense Priorities, told Business Insider. “More than what they consider the military requirement.” Goldstein said he and Waechter had been tracking dozens of Chinese articles analyzing the Kinzhal, which indicated Beijing was deeply interested in its performance.”It adds to evidence that China’s watching this war extremely carefully,” he said.
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