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> As for the Chinese industry ... it certainly imports the best German machinery on a massive scale, and when it comes to manufacturing hi-tech missile components, it runs circles around Russians.

If that's true, then that fact would seem to undermine the whole policy thrust of this report, which seems to be the implementation of very broad sanctions against machine tools to damage the Russia war effort. It might be easy to identify, say, a large Azerbaijani advanced machine tool order as a Russia front to violate sanctions, but based on what you say, I don't it would be possible to identify a Russia front operating through a Chinese intermediary.