Apr
22
This was fast. Rueters is today reporting that Beijing may recall the Chinese ship carrying Chinese arms bound for the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe after the ship was denied entry into several African ports.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the contract for the shipment was signed last year and was “unrelated to recent developments” in Zimbabwe.
Jiang said the arms shipment was “perfectly normal trade in military goods between China and Zimbabwe,” but because it was impossible for land-locked Zimbabwe to receive the goods, the company may ship the cargo back to China.
Only an authoritarian regime like Communist China would consider arming a murderous thugocracy like Mugabe’s Zimbabwe to be “perfectly normal trade.”
The Central Committee members in Beijing must be furious that the international attention being focused on China’s thuggery in Tibet might be screwing up their arms trade with the other regimes.
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