Our "Friend" China
More disturbing news about the wanna-be superpower in the east:
China arming terrorists
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.
How long are we going to pretend that China is not an enemy? Well, I suppose if we're not willing to confront Iran, despite the fact that they're arming and training insurgents to kill Americans in Iraq, we're hardly going to do so for a nation with a much larger army, that already has nukes.
But could we not at least be open about the fact that they are not our allies? And I'm not talking about either the Chinese or Iranian people...I'm talking about the governments whose policies are explicitly and tacitly anti-American.
Source: Inside the Ring - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper