Additionally, the ability to load the traction trebuchet with some less-than-conventional objects marked it with a versatility that its counterweight cousin doesn't possess.

Source: https://www.slashgear.com/1405271/trebuchet-history-ancient-china-modern-conflict/

Analysts said the bloc was seeking to turn itself into a counterweight to the West in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/putin-overshadows-brics-talks-as-south-africa-mulls-arrest-warrant-options/article_31bf22b7-c6a9-547d-994c-d0a79dea6fea.html

But as the rifts between China, Russia and the United States deepen, the bloc has been increasingly looking to act as a counterweight to the West.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/08/egypt-iran-saudi-arabia-uae-join-brics

China is trying to act as a geopolitical counterweight.”

Source: https://leadership.ng/nigerias-2024-oil-revenue-may-plunge-as-oil-traders-exit-petrodollar-transactions/

Funded largely by private donors, CU Boulder’s Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization bills itself as a conservative counterweight that “promotes academic freedom and intellectual diversity” on an otherwise liberal campus.

Source: https://www.realvail.com/cu-program-infamous-for-eastman-stint-in-2020-reloads-with-class-on-woke-threats-to-rule-of-law/a16846/

“It’s a counterweight to Biden,” he said.

Source: https://www.mymcmurray.com/2023/05/01/fraught-u-s-israel-ties-on-display-as-knesset-reconvenes/

It’s rapid descent was stopped by the conveyance counterweight becoming trapped by the jack catches.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/death-miners-darkest-day-history-implats-ceo/

The Brics countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are seen as a counterweight to the Western-led world and world news was abuzz after the announcement of the Brics +6.

Source: https://mg.co.za/politics/2023-08-27-malema-brics6-step-in-right-direction-to-end-wests-imperialist-domination/

The counterweight trebuchet was equipped with a windlass, an apparatus which was required neither for traction nor hybrid trebuchets to launch missiles.

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2023/12/15/byzantine-inventions-used-today/

The first lady will visit Namibia and Kenya this week as part of a push by the United States to step up engagement with Africa as a counterweight to China's influence on the continent, the White House announced Tuesday.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/feb/21/jill-biden-to-visit-namibia-kenya-part-of-u-s-africa-push/

The Polish-Ukrainian Union would become the second-largest country in the EU and arguably its largest military power, providing more than an adequate counterweight to the Franco-German tandem—something that the EU is sorely missing after Brexit.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/26/its-time-to-bring-back-the-polish-lithuanian-union/