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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of the Bucks.

Sexton Show, a deep dive on all things China right now.

And for that, we have the perfect guest.

Gordon Chang, he's the author of the coming collapse of China,

as well as the great U.S. China Tech War.

He's a great follow on Twitter as well, Gordon G. Chang.

Gordon, my friend, good to have you back, sir. Good to see you.

Thank you so much, Buck. This will be fun.

So the biggest news right now with regard to China is, and something that came up over the weekend.

How worried should we be about Chinese military support to Russia in the Ukraine war?

And I want to dive into what that could look like.

But what do you see it as right now, Gordon?

China has been supplying military assistance from the very beginning of this war, Buck,

but China has picked up the pace.

Now, the Breaking Defense website reports that almost every day,

and Antonov-A-N-124, which is the biggest cargo plane in the world, leaves Zhengzhou, which is in central China,

and it goes to Russia. It turns off its transponder when it leaves, and it's carrying ammunition

and other high-consumption rate items. This follows reports that China's been selling drones to the Wagner Group

for use in Ukraine. And from the get-go in this war, China has been feeding location data

to the Russians. The Ukrainian drone operators were using products made in China. That

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