My apologies
I was simply puting my interpretation on what they mean't here is part of the passage, make of it what you will
After orders peaked at more than $2 billion a year early in this decade, Chinese arms deals with Russia shrank to almost nothing in 2006, and no major new contracts are in the pipeline, according to Russian, Chinese and U.S. defense experts.
"We are in a strategic pause," said Ruslan Pukhov, an expert on the Russian military and director of the Center for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, a Moscow-based research institute specializing in the arms trade. "The Chinese and Russians are like long-term lovers who are thinking, 'Shall we continue to share this bed?' "A halt or slowdown in Russian arms deliveries could hamper the Chinese drive to modernize its military. It would also increase pressure on the Chinese arms industry to innovate.
Some Western and Russian military experts say they believe that despite decades of intensive effort, Chinese arms makers are still struggling to master the advanced engineering skills needed to build important hardware.
In China, there is confidence that these problems will be solved. "The Russians can maintain their lead for a certain period, but eventually we will catch up," said Shen Dingli, an international affairs analyst at Fudan University in Shanghai. "China will be a formidable technological competitor to anybody."......................
Sergei Chemzov, a senior government official responsible for arms sales, said Russia exported weapons worth $7 billion in 2007, and this was expected to increase to $7.5 billion in 2008, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported in December.
To add to Beijing's frustration, some of the Russian transfers to India include weapons and technology that Moscow refuses to supply to China. Moscow and New Delhi agreed to begin the joint development of a new, so-called fifth-generation fighter, the Russian government announced in October.
This aircraft would be a potential rival in performance to the U.S. F-22 Raptor, defense analysts say.
India also agreed last year to buy another 40 Su-30MKI fighters from Russia for $1.5 billion in addition to an earlier order for 140 of these aircraft. Some military experts say this versatile, twin-engined jet is probably the best fighter and strike aircraft in the world. But Russia has not offered it to China. And Moscow is offering to sell India its latest fighter, the MiG-35.
In nuclear submarine technology, Russia has also been more generous with India than with China, naval experts say.
Still, with the Western arms embargo on China still in place, most analysts expect that Moscow and Beijing will eventually negotiate compromises that clear the way for future contracts.
"Russia still provides what the U.S. and the EU will not supply," said Muraviev.
Heres the site if you wanted to read the whole article, but personally I dont think its telling us what the posters on this thread have already stated, however I was a little confused over the Su 30MK1 issue.I thought China had a number of these planes so a little confused on what they were talking about
