@Slobberdog_Milosevic @RupertvonRipp @Heil_Honkler @Sprayfoam_Sal @Granwalder @Wormwood @fishsticks @sapphire @shaunh @synapsid Norinco sales reps were gullible enough to be totally willing to sell RPGs to some glownig in LA merely 30 years ago.
If you played things how they wanted, I could totally see them letting an old warship get sold off live as long as they pretend “it went to a museum buyer!”.
Hell, that’s how they got their aircraft carrier….the Liaoning? It was unfinished soviet work, and some chink dude bought it privately to become a docked “hotel” and then transferred it to the chink navy.
And then they stiffed him on the deal and never paid him back. GRORRRRIOUS CHAI-NER