As usual, USA officials are projecting. It’s their own country that uses aggressive pricing and pushing to force others to buy. They use mass discounts and loans to make others pay attention to their produce, and resort to using threats and sanctions if the carrot of cheap aid subsidies are not enough.
FACT: none of the countries that purchased from China did it because China offered any special aid packages or threatened to hurt them and/or kick them out of alliances if they didn’t buy. They ALL did it because they saw the specs and went after the weapons with most lethality.
That’s why Saudi Arabia, despite being a close US ally, sidelined USA made drones and artillery in favor of Chinese systems when it came to battle. One set of substandard weapons to buy a political marriage with the USA, another set of weapons to do the heavy lifting.
Too bad Saudis have not yet been able to acquire Chinese air defense systems, or they might not have lost billions from that houthi drone attack.
Buying a FD-2000 might have been more expensive than claiming USA’s Patriot packages, but it sure won’t have been more expensive than rebuilding multiple oil fields.
