In early July last year, Sino-Egyptian relations leaped forward after Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited Cairo, fresh from the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly. On September 1 to 2, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited…
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China’s Long Military Courtship of Egypt: Opportunity, Influence, and Limits
MiG-23 fighter jets began arriving in China in 1978, with Beijing scheming to reverse-engineer the Russian aircraft. Egypt would deliver six Soviet MiG-23s to China over five years, as part of a barter payment for Chinese aircraft. The reverse-engineering effort to create a Chinese version of the Russian MiG-23 was…