Regime Watch: Beijing

Good piece at World Defense Review about the nations and leaders who have helped the Robert Mugabe regime cling to power and ruin Zimbabwe. Wherever there is chaos and thuggery in Africa, Beijing seems to have a hand in it. From the piece:

Not surprisingly, one of Mugabe’s most important enablers has been the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). As I reported here last year, not only has Beijing sold Harare some thirty military aircraft, including FC-1 fighter jets and K-8 light attack aircraft, which the latter can ill afford, but it has also provided the ZANU-PF regime with the literal tools of repression, including radio-jamming equipment and listening devices. Mugabe, like his fellow despot, Sudan’s Umar al-Bashir, has come to expect “customer courtesies” from the PRC like the Chinese prevention of UN discussion of his situation last week.