Soviet Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin broke the Non-Intervention Agreement and League of Nations embargo by providing material assistance to the Republican forces, becoming their only source of major weapons.

From August 1936 onward, over one ship per day arrived at Spain’s Mediterranean ports with Russian aid: munitions, rifles, machine guns, hand grenades, artillery, trucks, Soviet agents, technicians, instructors, and propagandists.

Maybe it’s too early and I haven’t completely woken up yet, but I don’t understand what the article is trying to say. “China has a plan”, " China will attempt to retaliate", “China is seeking other trade partners now that the US is using tariffs against them”… Umm yeah? No shit? So many words for stating the obvious.

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