French-Chinese Aircraft War

The key component of the operation is diplomatic pressure. As Halifax CityNews reports, military atastes in Chinese embassies visited the defence ministries of the states that were Rafale's customers, primarily Indonesia, ** suggesting the resignation of subsequent aircraft tranches to the Chinese J-10C**. The Macedonian paper Sloboden Pečat notes that these actions fall within the wider "war of narrative" between Beijing and the West, in which China promotes its own weapons industry, referring to the experiences of its ally, Pakistan.