Reptile-brained Western empire boycotts Chinese cotton. Chinese cotton variety needed to make gunpowder cotton. West can’t make enough ammo to supply Ukronazis for lack of Chinese cotton. Russia thanks the reptiles!

From China Writers’ Group member Wei Ling Chua (Amazon.com: Wei Ling Chua: books, biography, latest update)

The gunpowder inside the shell contains a chemical substance called nitrocellulose! It mainly comes from Xinjiang, China! China can no longer sell cotton to Europe.

Chinese media reported that only certain a quality of cotton can be used to make gun powder, 70% of it from Xinjiang. So, when the West sanctioned Xinjiang cotton, those exports stopped. 

I used to buy a lot of black cotton t-shirt for wearing inside during cold season, and doing dirty job around the home such as lawn mowing, gardening etc. Those quality made in China t-shirt only sales for $3.75 in K-mart in Australia. Since the ban of Xinjiang cotton, these shirt no longer exist. The replacement is (I can’t remember the name of the European cotton standard shirt) with the same looks and similar quality for $8.

(Note: This report blamed China again, forgotting about their own moron politicians unity in banning Xinjiang cotton) 

Enjoy reading:

Europe battles gunpowder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine – The Japan Times

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/02/world/politics/europe-ukraine-gunpowder-shortage

PARIS – Hard-to-find gunpowder is hindering Europe’s scramble to provide hundreds of thousands of shells for Ukraine’s defensive effort against Russian invaders, with solutions only starting to emerge.

“We have all become aware of the need to face up to the scarcity of some components, especially gunpowders,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday after a gathering of Kyiv’s allies in Paris.

“Powder is really what’s lacking today,” he added.

Gunpowder goes into propellant charges that hurl artillery shells — such as the NATO-standard 155-millimeter projectiles used in many guns sent to Ukraine — over distances of tens of kilometers.

“A simple explosive artillery shell has three parts. It has a steel casing, a high-explosive main charge and a detonator” usually set to trigger the blast on impact, said Johann Hoecherl, a munitions expert at the German armed forces university in Munich.

“Propellant charges are usually separate, because (gunners) will take one or two, up to six or even eight” depending on the desired range, he added.

While the propellant is still referred to as gunpowder “it’s not powder at all these days, it’s made up of rods or pellets,” Hoecherl said.

In a video on its website, German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall illustrates stackable propellant cylinders filled with explosive pellets slotting in behind a shell in the breech of a cannon.

Europe counts a very small number of powder producers, said Jean-Paul Maulny, deputy director of France’s Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS).

They include firms like Eurenco, with operations in France, Belgium and Sweden, and Nitrochemie, majority-owned by Rheinmetall, with sites in Germany and Switzerland.

With many countries pushing to bring production home, France “is in the process of relocating part of Eurenco’s production to Bourges” around 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Paris, Maulny said.

“This is one of the bottlenecks for munitions,” he added. “The top question is the quantity of production.”

EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton told reporters in Paris on Friday that the bloc also faced challenges finding the raw materials for gunpowder.

“To make powder, you need a specific kind of cotton, which mostly comes from China,” he said.

Nitrocellulose, also known as guncotton, is a key ingredient in gunpowder manufacture.

“Would you know it, deliveries of this cotton from China stopped as if by chance a few months ago,” Breton added.

China and Russia have in recent years ramped up economic cooperation and diplomatic contacts, and their strategic partnership has grown closer since the invasion of Ukraine. (Note: blamed China again, forgotten about their own moron politicians unity in banning Xinjiang cotton) 

In Russia this week, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong declared relations “are at their best period in history.”

Breton said that “Nordic countries have found a substitute for the Chinese cotton … innovation is at work, precisely to meet the need for powder, because … we have problems today with powder capacity”

Companies producing the substitute ingredients f.or powder would be among those selected for grants under the EU’s Act In Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP) to be announced next week, Breton said.

Breton predicted that EU efforts to boost artillery shell output would bring the bloc’s annual production capacity to between 1.5 million and 1.7 million by the end of this year.

He estimated that the equivalent figure for Russia was “a little below 2 million.”

“Everyone is putting themselves in a position to manufacture on a much larger scale,” said IRIS expert Maulny.

“For now, the Ukrainians are short of shells … the Russians don’t have a shortage since they got stocks from the North Koreans, but it could happen in the coming months,” he added.

“No- one was ready for a high-intensity conflict where there’s enormous consumption of military equipment. We haven’t seen a war like this since World War II,” Maulny said.