Poland has requested the activation of Article 4 of NATO’s treaty over the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Sept. 10.

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    The four-cylinder engine is made by a Chinese company, Xiamen Limbach

    …which was a German company bought by the Chinese in 2011.

    It was and is a problem to carelessly have sold so much industry to them.

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      Ehh… The engine is a just a little 50hp thing designed in the 80s. I am quite sure Iran could do that by themselves with or without China or Germany being involved

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      Looking briefly, it appears the current owner basically bought the company out of bankruptcy. It doesn’t appear that the motors are particularly novel.

      The owner is a dual German/Chinese national, be was done so at a time of amicable relations. Even today such a sale would (IMHO) likely not be seen as geopolitically significant.

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        Yet we have the problem that a company seated in Germany but Chinese-owned is propelling the tools used by enemies of ours to wage a war against a country that wishes to align with us.