How can Ukraine rebuild China ties after they were scarred by Russia's war?

"Back in the 1990s, China's nascent capitalism triggered demand for Ukrainian steel slabs and iron ore, corn and sunflower oil. However, the most prized export items from impoverished Ukraine were the Soviet-era arsenal of weapons it did not think it needed any more. list of 4 itemsend of list Kyiv sold Beijing aerospace components, helicopter and tank engines, and technology transfers for the manufacturing of radars, naval gas turbines and jet engines, helping to reshape China's defence industry."

"It even admitted to illegally shipping six nuclear-capable Kh-55 cruise missiles. The pinnacle of military-industrial exports was the 1998 sale of the Soviet-era Varyag aircraft carrier, whose construction began but never finished on the wharves of the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. Beijing pledged to use the 306-metre (1,004-foot) long vessel for training but turned it into its first aircraft carrier, Liaoning."

"It is always a Chinese manufacturer of unmanned aircraft who earns the most, Andrey Pronin, one of the drone warfare pioneers in Ukraine, told Al Jazeera. He was standing in the storeroom of his school for drone pilots on the outskirts of Kyiv next to a dozen drones that ranged from what looked like a tiny replica of a World War I biplane to a jet-driven mini-missile to tiny first-person-view drones."

Beijing emerged as one of Kyiv's most crucial trading partners, importing Ukrainian steel, iron ore, corn, sunflower oil and a large inventory of Soviet-era weapons and military technology. Kyiv sold aerospace components, helicopter and tank engines, and transferred technologies for radars, naval gas turbines and jet engines, contributing to the modernization of China's defence industry, including the conversion of the Varyag into the Liaoning carrier. Kyiv admitted to shipping six Kh-55 cruise missiles. During the Russia-Ukraine war, Chinese manufacturers profit from competition in drone development because Ukrainian drones rely heavily on Chinese-made engines, flight controllers, batteries, thermal cameras and navigation modules.

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