By Anthony Marcus for Eurasia Business News, September 28, 2025. Article n°1807
Leaked classified documents reveal that Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, would help China prepare for a potential invasion of Taiwan by 2027 using Russian advanced airborne assault technology.
According to contracts and correspondence obtained by the Black Moon hacktivist group, Russia agreed in 2023 to supply the PLA with armored military vehicles, high-altitude parachute systems, and weapons specifically designed for airborne operations. These include 37 light amphibious assault vehicles, 11 amphibious anti-tank self-propelled guns, and 11 airborne armored personnel carriers, all equipped with Chinese command and communication systems.
Additionally, Russia is training a Chinese airborne battalion in the use of these vehicles and tactics, leveraging Russian combat experience in airborne operations, which China currently lacks. This cooperation enhances China’s capability for a rapid airborne assault on Taiwan by enabling paratroopers to deploy armored vehicles and troops behind enemy lines, targeting less defended areas such as golf courses near ports and airports.
The report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) warns the Chinese troops and Russian-made armoured vehicles could swoop onto Taiwanese golf courses close ports and airports as they are less defended than military targets.
These revelations, authenticated by high-ranking German security sources according to the daily Bild, expose a reality that no one wanted to see.
Russian support not only includes the provision of equipment but also training and the establishment of a technological weapons maintenance center inside China to facilitate future production and help in invading Taiwan.
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Analysts suggest that Russia’s assistance could speed up China’s airborne assault readiness timeline by 10 to 15 years, significantly boosting Beijing’s strategic options in any military operation against Taiwan. This collaboration reflects deepening military ties between Russia and China amid heightened geopolitical tensions in Eastern Asia.
In addition, having set the stage for a year of high-level engagement with the Trump administration, the Chinese president Xi Jinping is now chasing his ultimate prize, according to experts : a change in U.S. policy that Beijing hopes could isolate Taiwan.
China and Russia are two nuclear powers, which grew closer in the 2000s, sharing a common opposition to the influence of the United States and its allies on the international stage.
Since 2014, the alliance between China, an industrial giant, and Russia, the leading power in mineral resources, has been a geopolitical force unequalled in history, based in Eurasia, the “heart of the world”, as already considered by the British geographer Halford John Mackinder in 1904 in his article The Geographical Pivot of History. This theory was, however, criticized by Nicholas John Spykman, professor of international relations at Yale University in the 1930s, defending the primacy of the “Rimland”, this coastal strip of the Eurasian continent, over the “Heartland”.
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