New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.

U.S. government appeals to China to check some of the arms shipments in advance were met with stonewalling by Beijing, which insisted it knew nothing about the shipments and asked for additional intelligence on the transfers. The ploy has been used in the past by China to hide its arms-proliferation activities from the United States, according to U.S. officials with access to the intelligence reports.

Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms.

The Washington Times reported June 5 that Chinese-made HN-5 anti-aircraft missiles were being used by the Taliban.

According to the officials, the Iranians, in buying the arms, asked Chinese state-run suppliers to expedite the transfers and to remove serial numbers to prevent tracing their origin. China, for its part, offered to transport the weapons in order to prevent the weapons from being interdicted.

The weapons were described as "late-model" arms that have not been seen in the field before and were not left over from Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq.
U.S. Army specialists suspect the weapons were transferred within the past three months.

The Bush administration has been trying to hide or downplay the intelligence reports to protect its pro-business policies toward China, and to continue to claim that China is helping the United States in the war on terrorism. U.S. officials have openly criticized Iran for the arms transfers but so far there has been no mention that China is a main supplier.

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1 So.. I wonder if this will have any effect on their "most favored nation" trade status with the USA.. doubt it, but it probably should.
Im going to link this, btw.

Posted by: JeepThang at June 15, 2007 07:23 PM (yZQoS)

2 This is what happens in the real world when you start looking and acting like a sick/dying/weak hearted Bull.  Preadators don't hit the young bucks witth strong hearts they go for the old large animnals with weak hearts that are easy kills.
 
This is only the begining more and more of our allies are going to abondon ship and more and more enemies or potential enemies are going to move in to get a piece of the dying giant for themselves.

Since about 2004' we have allowed the LLL/s to undermine our moral resulting in conmmon conception being the Iraq phase of the war a failure.  Iraq phase on all counts historically compared is a unbeleivable success so far our forefathers fought wars that made this conflict look like a minor conflict.  Our enemies see this heartless weakness and see what I see a Giant that is deseased infected with Liberalism so bad that he cannot even stomach a fight for his own life.  Our once powerfull nation is literally ready to just lay down and die and the preadators are coming even fighting eachother for thier share of the kill.

3months    so basiclly after the Chicoms saw confirmation that the Dems were going to go full alt at cutting the legs off our soldgiers and war effort before agreeeing to this risky move.

Posted by: C-Low at June 15, 2007 07:44 PM (ZNANk)

3 I've been pondering for years the possibility that bin Laden is hiding out in that little tail of China that pokes into the Hindu Kush next to Afganistan. He would be safe from airstrikes there. The Chinese would have him as a de facto prisoner as well as  a thorn in our side.

Posted by: torabora at June 15, 2007 07:58 PM (ETVAT)

4 Dirty rotten chinks. Stop buying from Wal-Mart. China's biggest trading pardner.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 15, 2007 08:04 PM (fNvh1)

5 effect on their "most favored nation" trade status with the USA.. doubt it, but it probably should.

Yep. The same gang that is paying for unlimited illegals pay to let China fuck us up the ass.

Posted by: Randman at June 15, 2007 08:39 PM (Sal3J)

6 It really isn't a surprise. After seeing the U.S success at arming Afghanistan against the "Super Power" Russia, and the collapse of the Soviet empire -- who can blame China trying the same route?
Well unfortunately for China, Americans were not buying all of their junk from Russia at the time so we should find some way to punish them economically.

Posted by: davec at June 15, 2007 09:50 PM (kcDpP)

7

My opinion is that China will try and take Taiwan back while we are busy in other places, (thanks to their selling of weapons to the  Taliban). They know that the US won't doing anything about it, and the Dems will come up with some reason on why China deserves Taiwan.

Posted by: barry at June 15, 2007 10:10 PM (blu+l)

8 We might as well cancel the treaty with Taiwan cause we sure don't have the balls for that fight.

Posted by: Randman at June 16, 2007 12:44 AM (Sal3J)

9 ""Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms.""

WOW! So they have a airbridge to supply the Taliban/alqaida. Airplaines come and go with millions of weapons. Almost everyday. In addition tens of thousend military advisers to train and instruct the Taliban to fight Americans/Britsh/Dutch/Aus.

I heard they almost near Kabul!

Posted by: Dan at June 16, 2007 05:43 AM (ILHet)

10 Don't blame the Chinese, because it's our fault after all for electing
the treasonous scum to office who have allowed this to happen. our
soldiers aren't fighting for Liberty, but rather dying for the
enrichment of the new aristocracy. Only a revolution can save us now.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 16, 2007 10:24 AM (e56vj)

11 The blood in TENNIMIN SQUARE has spread to the middle east ahh yes the dragon is heading to the middle east

Posted by: sandpiper at June 16, 2007 10:27 AM (mY5+n)

12 Not news to me.
 
Some of the guys who went into the caves to clear ordnance left by fleeing Taliban forces noticed that the ammo containers had oriental writing on them.  They reasoned (obviously) that the writing was Chinese due to proximity and because the Chinese had been walking hand in hand (though with obvious frictions) with the Taliban for some time.  Many of the fighters that the Media proclaimed headed South, in fact headed East - Had to do with tribal affiliations I think.  Our government didn't make a stink about the situation.  So much for holding countries that support terrorism to account (and this after only a few months after 9/11).  They obviously didn't want to make it public and besides, there was no PROOF, in part because we weren't allowed hot pursuit anywhere near the Chinese border (actually, I don't think it was much of a border then, but the Chinese have probably changed that because they fear US surveillance and vice versa.
 
Anyway, pull up a few pictures of the Taliban's arsenal in their caves.  It won't be too long before you'll see the writing on the wall (or, let's say, on the ammo boxes):  Chinese characters (Mandarin).
 
Finally, somebody decided to notice.  Tsch.

Posted by: Rykehaven at June 16, 2007 11:36 AM (ObIvw)

13 "...ahh yes the dragon is heading to the middle east."

Don't know about you guys.. but Im more conserned over "the dragon" heading to the West Coast.  I hope Im just paranoid.

Posted by: JeepThang at June 16, 2007 09:22 PM (yZQoS)

14 Let's kick their asses ... yeeeeehah! Oh, wait a second ...there's a billion of them and they'll eventually come over here and TAKE what they want. Let's just lay low.

Posted by: B at June 19, 2007 07:20 PM (YTpW6)

15 Their was a billion of them when Japan slaughtered them.

Posted by: greyrooster at June 20, 2007 11:07 PM (evorT)

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