AP: U.S. Criticizes China Weapons Sales

[Eugene]

U.S. Criticizes China Weapons Sales

By FOSTER KLUG
The Associated Press
Thursday, September 14, 2006; 12:47 PM

WASHINGTON -- Top U.S. officials on Thursday criticized what they called China's
indiscriminate sale of weapons to rogue countries, suggesting that Beijing's
policies had made the world a more dangerous place.

Peter Rodman, assistant secretary of defense for international security, urged China
to reevaluate its relationship with Iran and North Korea, two countries with which
the United States is locked in standoffs over nuclear weapons development.

"China's actions seem to us dangerously shortsighted," Rodman told the U.S.-China
Economic and Security Review Commission, an advisory panel created by Congress.
"China's proliferation behavior, past and present, can come back to haunt it, even
placing its own political interests in jeopardy."

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He mentioned Iran, Sudan, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Venezuela, and also linked
China to North Korea's July missile test launch of seven missiles and to Hezbollah's
use of Chinese-designed cruise missiles on an Israeli naval vessel, also in July.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091400764.html

Interesting. The exact same things can be said about the "War on Terror."

[Kelvin Mace]

1. When we stop selling weapons to every

goddamn lunatic on the planet, we can talk.

[CBGLuthier]

2. Venezuala?

Oh, fuck him. This shit is getting so obvious my cat can see through it. And my cat aint too smart.

[Tempest]

5. Yeah, you gotta watch out for those democratic countries

They're a threat to Bush's fascist visions.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Pot? meet kettle. nt

[Tempest]

4. Alex, I'll take "Arms Dealers Of The World"

Alex: "This country sells in excess of ten times more arms than the number two, three, four and five countries combined".

Answer: "Who is the United States".