Copycat fighters: What Sipri report doesn’t tell about China’s defence manufacturing sector

While Sipri highlights China's rise in defence manufacturing, it remains conspicuously silent on Beijing's rampant reverse engineering of foreign military technology, whereas India's Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, though slower, upholds ethical self-reliance in defence production. read more Although there is a tense calm along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China, with both militaries facing off and heavily armed, one common trend for the rivals is a shift towards reducing arms imports and focussing more on domestic defence production. India and China, the two biggest powers in Asia, have historically been among the world's top buyers of weapons….